Sorry, it's not that dramatic. https://www.yahoo.com/gma/two-peopl...re-island-173303623--abc-news-topstories.html
Quint: I'm not talkin' about pleasure boatin' or day sailin'. I'm talkin' about workin' for a livin'. I'm talkin' about sharkin'. Hooper: Well I'm not talkin' about hookin' some poor dog fish or sand shark. I'm talkin' about findin' a Great White. Quint: You've got city boy hands, Hooper. You been countin' money all your life. Hooper: I don't need this working-class-hero crap. Quint: Maybe I should go alone.
My guess is that it was a sand shark, they closed the beaches to swimming/surfing for the rest of the day. Ranger threatened arresting people who went in. What a joke!!
Starting to get hairy now. Did you see how many people were in the water? How many surfers too... that fish was hunting in that surf zone the whole time.
It would be over in the blink of an eye if that fish decided you were on the menu, freaky! Even just an investigative bite could be fatal.
What sucks is that usually a sweet spot for surf. I guess the locals aren’t spooked - sorta like surfing on the outer Cape Cod area now. White Shark city
I do not count myself as part of any OG surfing - just dont have the time in and the experience, so I say this as an outsider: theses toothy mofo’s have been around as long as dudes were riding pieces of bark at Waimea. We regularly see Australians, South Africans, Californians, Floridians, OBX’ians etc. etc etc playing tag with them on the reg...if they have the balls or mindset to still love this shit and do it anyways, so will I. To me it’s not just the ability I’m trying to achieve, it’s the mindset and thereby the payoff I’m shooting for as well. But I could still have turned a lump of coal into a diamond if it was up my ass the other day getting knocked completely off an 8’4”x23”x3” surfboard hahahah