Apparently, the tiger sharks at Holualoa Bay on the Big Island of Hawai’i have been hungry lately. Two surfboards have been chomped in the last four days, according to a story in the Star-Advertiser.
The shark had come right up the tail of the board, clamped down over the skeg, pulling the back half of the 8-foot board under water, Honebrink said. . . The surfer, identified by Grace as Theresa Fernandez, was trying to grab onto the nose of her surfboard and paddle away from the shark, then the shark let go, he said. . . On Sunday at midday, a woman and her 3-year-old grandson were riding a stand-up paddleboard when a large shark knocked them both off the board about 20 feet offshore and took a bite out of the board, but didn’t touch them.
Just hope those Kona sharks keep craving fiberglass.
[Link: Star-Advertiser]
