{"id":10436,"date":"2009-09-10T09:32:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10436"},"modified":"2009-09-10T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:32:26","slug":"pilot-watches-great-white-go-after-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10436","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Watches Great White Go After Surfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/shark_mass.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/shark_mass.jpg','popup','width=454,height=336,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/shark_mass-tm.jpg\" height=\"148\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Shark Mass\" \/><\/a><strong>George Breen<\/strong>, the pilot of a Piper Super Cub, was helping researchers spot Great White sharks off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts when he saw one shark headed for a diver who had just jumped off a research ship in the water. He was able to radio the boat and they pulled the diver out just in time, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/09\/10\/tagging_along_on_shark_hunt_in_chatham\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shortly afterward, Breen said, he watched another shark dart toward a man surfing in the waters off Orleans. . . . He said the surfer, who probably never saw the submerged fish, walked ashore as the shark got within about 100 yards of him. . . . \u201cAll I can say is I think he\u2019s just one lucky dude,\u2019\u2019 Breen said. \u201cHe was pointed right at the surfer.\u2019\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems like the sharks are getting hungry lately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/09\/10\/tagging_along_on_shark_hunt_in_chatham\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Breen, the pilot of a Piper Super Cub, was helping researchers spot Great White sharks off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts when he saw one shark headed for a diver who had just jumped off a research ship in the water. He was able to radio the boat and they pulled the diver out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10437,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions\/10437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}