Mark McCracken was out fishing for bonito half a mile off Gaviota State Beach, near Santa Barbara, when a hammerhead shark started bumping and circling his kayak. Mark, to his credit, didn’t panic, paddled toward shore and kept striking the shark with its paddle as it approached. The shark “followed me all the way into about three feet of water,” McCracken said. “Even after I got out of my kayak and made it to the beach he was sitting right there…it was pretty creepy.”
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He has been hooked…see the line?
“He” has been hooked? How about “it’s” been hooked? How does Captain Michael Taylor know it’s a male rather than a female?
I hate news media. At the site it say the shark repeatedly attacked him.
Did it bite him, take his foot off, no.
There’s more things to worry about besides being stupid enough to fish in shark filled waters from a damn kayak. You’re basically chuming them to you.
A few poisonous yellow-bellied sea snakes spotted at Silver Strand Beach in Oxnard, California.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3277279/El-Ni-o-caused-poisonous-sea-snakes-wash-California-beach.html
I used to surf daily off Oahu for about 3 years, but it was back in the early 70s, if weather has anything to do with it. Never seen a shark there, now it’s different. Never hear anyone scream “911” from the water? Must be a new tourist?
Two reported shark attacks on the same day in Hawaii
CNN – 10 hours ago
There have been three shark attacks off Oahu this month. Eight days ago a surfer lost part
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/18/us/hawaii-shark-attacks/