Shark Attack on a Sea Kayak

July 31, 2007

No, this isn’t a reference to a new Dr. Seuss book–this is actually a true story.

On July 21, Dan Prather was out doing a little fishing on his sea kayak along with 16 other people. They happened to be fishing a remote island about a mile south of San Francisco.

Suddenly Dan was in the water. He surfaced to find the front end of his sea kayak lodged in the mouth of what he thinks was a Great White…so what does Dan do? He climbs right back on his Kayak…then falls back off once again.

Dan finally makes it back on to his Kayak for the second time, and it seemingly scares the shark away.

This is a great story coming by way of Canoe and Kayak Magazine.

When Dan finally high-tailed it back to shore (the shark had punctured a small hole in the front end of the kayak)..a fellow fisherman asked him if he had any luck fishing, he said, “Yeah, caught a shark…”

Swing on over and read this interesting and ARTICLE. I think that this is one fishing trip where I would have been glad to get the smallest catch.

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