Oregon Man Surfs on the Back of Great White!!!!!!!!!!

[Makalakumu]

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/131786003.html

Doug Niblack was trying to catch another wave before going to work, when his longboard hit something hard as rock off the Oregon Coast and he suddenly found himself standing on the back of a thrashing great white shark.


Looking down, he could see a dorsal fin in front of his feet as he stood on what he described as 10 feet of back as wide as his surfboard and as black as his own Neoprene wetsuit.


A tail thrashed back and forth and the water churned around him like a depth charge went off.


"It was pretty terrifying just seeing the shape emerge out of nothing and just being under me," he told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "And the fin coming out of the water.It was just like the movies."

Holy ****!

 

[seasoned]

Time to pack in the old surf board, sit back write a book on the good old days of surfing, and how I almost became shark food.

 

[Sukerkin]

:wide eyes: I reckon Maka has the right of it with his short and pithy comment! Much more expressive than the very English "My word!" you'd get out of me :lol:.

 

[Ken Morgan]

At least by being on top of the shark, you know where the hell it is. Problem of course is, you have to get off eventually....

 

[Xue Sheng]

This is just another in a long line of reasons as to why I will not surf

 

[Makalakumu]

For some reason, the scariest part of this story is where the guys leash gets tangled on the shark and starts to drag him out to sea. Yikes!

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[oftheherd1]

At least by being on top of the shark, you know where the hell it is. Problem of course is, you have to get off eventually....

And no more control to how you get off than how you got on. :uhyeah:

From the article, two very lucky people; including the lady in the kayak.

 

[MA-Caver]

Great whites we've learned are ambush predators and would prefer to take their (usual) prey that way. The guy's board probably saved his life as the fish was trying to go for that. The man is lucky indeed.

Someone on the shore could've distracted the fish by doing this... :uhyeah:

 

[Buka]

HFS! Don't even know what to say except sure glad it wasn't me!