Change of pants time

An Australian fisherman got a rare -- and unusual -- catch on Saturday when a great white shark leapt into his boat and knocked him off his feet.

Terry Selwood, 73, said he was on his 15-foot boat off Evans Head, north of Sydney, when the shark came charging toward him. It struck him with its pectoral fin before landing on him, he told the Associated Press on Monday.

Selwood said he got up and went to the gunnel at the bow of the boat while the 9-foot shark viciously flopped in the vessel.

“I didn’t give it a chance to look me in the eyes. I wanted to get up and get on top of the gunnel because it was thrashing around madly,” Selwood told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Selwood steadied himself by clinging to the tubular metal frame of the sun shelter, known as a bimini.

He suffered from bruises and bleeding on his right arm.

Selwood radioed the Evans Head coast guard and stayed on the gunnel until a rescue boat arrived.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...alian-fisherman.html

I saw that movie Sharknado!!

We are screwed, now that they are learning to fly!


HK Ag

Lasers on their heads are next...

When I lived in Alaska, I was always shocked at the kayak fisherman who had paddled out of Seward to the end of Resurrection Bay where it met the Gulf of Alaska. Salmon sharks (look a lot like bull sharks) follow the salmon migration and a number of times have drug a kayak fisher miles out to sea. At the beginning of the season, the bastards can jump too, but the one documentary I saw they were so fat at the end of the season they couldn't. Jumping sharks in kayak, no thanks. At least, on the boats I was on (twice the size of the one in the OP's story) there were gaffs for killing big halibut and ling cod, and some of the captains were armed with handguns to shoot 'em rather than gaff 'em.

He's in the ocean in a 15' boat?

"Now that's a shark!" (Said in my best Crocodile Dundee voice)

The Sydney Morning Herald has more pics and info in this link

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:
He's in the ocean in a 15' boat?

Yes...my father is 70 now and goes out in a small boat until land disappears. Tiny thing with just a 9.9 hp Evinrude.

I go with him and always wonder which one of us will eat the other should that engine die.

Good thing they still had the evidence.
Sounds like a great fish story to me.

Mr Selwood needs a larger boat.

Better than sharing a 9 ft. boat with a 15 ft. Great White.

Anybody know shark behavior? Why would a Great White do this?

I'm guessing that it jumped in order to take the boat or "fish" in its mind down to the bottom. I don't think the shark knew science and that a boat will still float even if you flop on it.