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Related: About this forumGreat White Shark Leaps into Fisherman's Boat..CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/world/great-white-shark-boat-australia-trnd/index.htmlFisherman Terry Selwood, 73, is still trying to wrap his head around how it all happened.
Selwood was fishing off of Evans Head on Australia's east coast on Saturday when a great white shark suddenly leaped out of the ocean beside him.
"The bloody thing just jumped in my boat," Selwood told ABC News Australia. The shark was later measured at almost 9 feet (2.7 meters) long.
"As he was coming down, he hit me on the arm. He knocked me off balance, of course, and I just fell on my hands and knees," said Selwood. "I looked there to the side and ... (thought) 'this is a bloody shark.'" Despite being stunned and bloodied, the fisherman reacted quickly.
"He was just doing the mad dance and he was thrashing everywhere, so I got up as quick as I could, I grabbed the rocket launcher up the top, and I climbed up on the gunnel," Selwood said. Then he called for help on his radio.
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Great White Shark Leaps into Fisherman's Boat..CNN (Original Post)
Stuart G
May 2017
OP
mercuryblues
(15,336 posts)1. A shark
jumps on a fisherman's boat on Memorial Day weekend? The should make a movie out of that.
Blue_Roses
(13,486 posts)2. Wow
shenmue
(38,538 posts)3. Yipes