Surfer Dylan Crawford got knocked from his board by something in the water while surfing Kawaa Beach on Hawai’i’s big island on Thursday August, 6, 2009, according to a story on KGMB9.com.
“The next thing I know, I realize, okay there’s a large animal next to me,” he said. “I was right next to it for a second, basically touching it. And when it submerged, it pulled me down on top of it.”
The 8-foot tiger shark too a big chunk of the nose of his board when he left.
[Link: KGMB9.com]
Why do sharks always take such artful chomps out of surfboards? It’s like they know the photo-op value of a good souvenir bite-board. Are they the sculptors of the sea? Trying to teach us something about surfboard shaping?
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