{"id":15570,"date":"2010-04-20T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15570"},"modified":"2010-04-20T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:08:25","slug":"tiger-shark-hits-hanalei-bay-surfers-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15570","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Shark Hits Hanalei Bay Surfer&#8217;s Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/b647318c-4c4e-11df-be23-001cc4c002e0.preview-300.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/b647318c-4c4e-11df-be23-001cc4c002e0.preview-300.jpg','popup','width=300,height=303,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\/2010\/04\/b647318c-4c4e-11df-be23-001cc4c002e0.preview-300-tm.jpg\" height=\"202\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"B647318C-4C4E-11Df-Be23-001Cc4C002E0.Preview-300\" \/><\/a><strong>Jim Rowlinson<\/strong> was surfing at the Point at Hanalei Bay, on the north shore of Kaua&#8217;i around 4 PM on Monday, April 19, 2010 when he said he saw the water boil. Seconds later a shark took a bite out of Rowlinson&#8217;s blue longboards, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thegardenisland.com\/news\/local\/article_eb17cc1e-4c4e-11df-89bf-001cc4c002e0.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Garden Island<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Based on the teethmarks embedded in the board, marine biologist <strong>Terry Lilley <\/strong>of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveourseas.org\/saveourseas\/aloha.html\" target=\"_blank\">Save Our Seas<\/a><\/strong> said the shark was likely 14 feet long. He estimated this based off the base of the tooth measuring 1.25 inches. . . Lilley said the shark involved in this incident was likely chasing after a turtle when it mistakenly bit the surfboard. He said Rowlinson noted he saw a &#8220;yellow flash,&#8221; which could have been the underside of a turtle, just before the shark bit his board.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best part about longboards is the nose and tail are a long ways from where you&#8217;re sitting. Especially when the sharks hit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thegardenisland.com\/news\/local\/article_eb17cc1e-4c4e-11df-89bf-001cc4c002e0.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Garden Island<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Rowlinson was surfing at the Point at Hanalei Bay, on the north shore of Kaua&#8217;i around 4 PM on Monday, April 19, 2010 when he said he saw the water boil. Seconds later a shark took a bite out of Rowlinson&#8217;s blue longboards, according to a story in the The Garden Island. Based on [&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\/15570"}],"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=15570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15583,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions\/15583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}