Shark attack at 1/2 moon

[lost]

Talked to a friend who got of the water at mavericks. Saw some photos on the today show of a shark tooth lodged in this guys board. Sitting in the lineup and got bumped off his board and the shark took a bite. Fiberglass saved him.

[A-wreck]

Thank god for surfboards.

[Vicious]

I must say that would probably be one of the scariest f'ing things to have happen to you.

[cascade pinner]

Seems like the landlord has been busy collecting the rent in NorCal this fall......thats the third bite I've heard about. I was thinking about him A LOT on sunday.....lined up at the mouth of an Oregon river during salmon season......sweet lefts though.....

[watersnowdirt]

Gotta love surfing in Northern California....

http://www.foxreno.com/news/5240644/detail.html

Shark Attack At Famed Mavericks

POSTED: 7:11 am PST November 3, 2005
UPDATED: 7:26 am PST November 3, 2005

HALF MOON BAY -- Warning signs were posted at the beaches along Pillar Point on the San Mateo County coast Thursday following a narrow escape by a surfer from what may have been a great white shark at the famed Mavericks big wave offshore surf area.

Veteran surfer Tim West, 25, and a friend were paddling about an eighth a mile off shore about 5 p.m. Wednesday when a shark came up underneath his board and went on the attack.

"This is where it hit, majorly with the tooth still in it," West said while pointing to his damaged board. "It hit pretty hard. Then there are pressure dings in the top from the top jaw."

"I'm lucky that wasn't my body. That's the injury to my board as for my body -- I'm fine."

West said the attack happened so fast. He has been surfing in local waters for about 12 years and this is the first time he has ever even seen a shark.

Assistant San Mateo County Harbor Master Matt MacDonell said the details of the attack make him believe West had a run-in with a great white shark.

"So what happened to him is the shark came up, bite the board, knocked him off the board," he said. "It took the board as if it was its dinner…It trashed with the board and then because it didn’t taste any blood -- it spit the board out."

MacDonell said it was the first shark attack in three years at Mavericks. Deputies were out overnight posting warning signs on the beach.

West said he would have the shark's tooth taken out of his board by a biologist and find out just how large it was.

It was the second shark attack in a popular Northern California surfing area in the last month.

Megan Halavais, 20, was attacked Oct. 19 by what authorities describe as a 16-foot shark while paddling her surfboard with friends at Salmon Creek Beach, about a mile north of Bodega Bay in Sonoma County.

Doctors said one of the shark's teeth almost severed Halavais' femoral artery, a potentially fatal wound. She is expected to make a full recovery.

A 6-mile stretch of beach near the attack was reopened after a five-day shutdown. Authorities said the closure is standard for shark attacks because certain sharks tend to feed in one area for about five days.

[Superstar Punani]

Funny how both shark encounters (I hesitate to call them attacks) in Maverick's involved JONGs paddling out for a looky-loo on days when it's not even breaking.

Shark Encounter #1

"Euwer and Kasic had no intentions of surfing the break, but they reasoned that they should make the paddle out to the lineup in the name of "field research" for their documentary. "

Shark Attack #2 (from WSD's link above)
Checked surf yesterday and there was half the swell needed to even get Mav's to feather.

I think the men in grey suits are sending a message, and that message is "SPLIT, KOOKS!!!! NO gaper paddlers ALLOWED when Mav's isn't breaking!"






(Nevertheless, I'm glad the two guys involved came away relatively unscathed)

[flatlander#2]

Good call on the analysis of their talents through a news article.

[A-wreck]

Good call on the analysis of their talents through a news article.

I think what he's trying to say is, that when it's not breaking, you have a good chance of getting attacked by a shark. Since the last few attacks there were when the water was calm. And that there was no real point being out there in the first place.

[Superstar Punani]

Good call on the analysis of their talents through a news article.

SPLIT, KOOK!

GET DA FUCK OUTTA DA TGR FORUM

[Lane Meyer]

Ey flatlandah - wot brah, like beef? Beat it befo' Da Hui geev you likkings li`dat.

[jump]

I did a report on sharks in 5th grade. Yeah.

[Agent 00X]

Ok, this is making sense. Just north of Mavs is a long, I dunno- mile long, shoreline shallow reef where a ton of seals hang out. You can check 'em out from the cliff above the reef.

Glad he survived.