Western Oz Shark Scare

by The Editors on April 9, 2008

Surfer-Shark T350According to the Sunshine Coast Daily:

A Sunshine Coast surfer has been pulled out of a competition in WA after a massive shark was sighted by a fellow competitor – a day after a 16-year-old boy was killed by a shark.

Maroochydore’s Mitch Coleborn was midway through the heat at the Drug Aware Pro at Margaret River in Western Australia when the drama unfolded.

Coleborn was leading the heat comfortably when the surfers were called in with nine minutes remaining.

“I’d just completed a wave when I heard the commentators call us all in so I knew immediately it was a shark sighting – I paddled as fast as I could and it definitely rattled me when they called us in…. “

[Link: Sunshine Coast Daily]

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