The Year of the Shark!
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 4:04 pmhttp://www.grindtv.com/surf/pro-surfer- ... jwEM7YB.97
Also, experts are rushing for answers in North Carolina's surprising uptick in shark attacks this year.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/shark-attack-s ... d=32202330
I just hope that nobody runs into whatever ate this (if they do, we will never know about the encounter I guess).
http://time.com/2858459/researchers-sea ... ite-shark/
Three-time world champion Mick Fanning was attacked by a shark during the J-Bay Open Sunday off South Africa, prompting organizers to cancel the competition.
Fanning, 34, was not injured but video footage shows the shark emerging behind and splashing beneath him, as he senses what’s happening and scurries around to avoid being bitten, eventually falling from his surfboard.
The encounter occurred two minutes into the final of the J-Bay Open. Water safety personnel on Jet Skies rushed in and picked Fanning and fellow finalist Julian Wilson.
Fanning, 34, from Australia, said later during a World Surf League broadcast: “I had this instinct that something was behind me. Then, the thing came up. I saw the whole thing just thrashing around. I was getting dragged under by my leg rope. I felt like I punched it a couple of times….
“My leg rope broke. I started just swimming and swimming. I was screaming,” he said.
Also, experts are rushing for answers in North Carolina's surprising uptick in shark attacks this year.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/shark-attack-s ... d=32202330
I just hope that nobody runs into whatever ate this (if they do, we will never know about the encounter I guess).
http://time.com/2858459/researchers-sea ... ite-shark/
