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P.s., Here, every surfer has scary shark stories - lots! I have several 'big shark' stories - there are two in particular that are really, really bad - just to type them up increases my blood pressure. (The one in Hatteras I wrote about was NOT one of them.) I write about this one (it was in South Daytona Beach) because of the conclusion I have only in recent years reached about it.
I'm going to keep it quick. It was strange but quick and I really wondered if my time was up. I was about 300 yards out and had allowed myself to drift north away from where most surfers were. There wasn't anyone within a quarter mile of me, probably more. I was just starting to get that uncomfortable feeling of 'this ain't the safest place to be' and my goal was to ride the next wave I caught into the beach.
As I sat on my board, staring out to sea, legs dangling like large bait, a MONSTER shark came from behind me and next to me. She was clearly checking me out - (I knew it was a she as she had mating scars on her dorsal fin which I could have reached out with my right hand and touched.) I remember thinking as I was in the process of going belly down on my board, 'if I grab her fin and jump on her back*, would that be considered a 'suicide?'
Anyway, there was always a problem with that which was for years I had thought it was a bull shark but research in these past few years shows that bull sharks never get that big. Now back when this happened we really thought that great whites were something Aussies and unlucky Jerseyites dealt with, but it turns out that there are quite a few here. My latest conclusion: I'm pretty certain that she was a great white - she was just too big to be any other type. There are many other facts of that event which likewise point to the conclusion. (E.g., dorsal fin shape, her left pectoral fin should have hit my right leg but she was so big that it probably swished under my right heel! etc.) So, 4.5M/15 feet great white sounds about the right size.
Scary times when you have to paddle in using only your fingertips.
R.C.
*This was long before someone ever said or memed that expression
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