{"id":27384,"date":"2011-12-22T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27384"},"modified":"2011-12-22T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T17:37:32","slug":"surfers-tells-story-of-california-shark-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27384","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Tells Story of California Shark Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111222__CSS1B68054_GALLERY.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20111222__CSS1B68054_GALLERY.jpg','popup','width=280,height=400,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\/2011\/12\/20111222__CSS1B68054_GALLERY-tm.jpg\" height=\"142\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20111222  Css1B6805~4 Gallery\" \/><\/a><strong>Eric Tarantino<\/strong>, a Monterey, California surfer, who was attacked by a shark in October while surfing at Marina State Beach is now reliving the story for the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/localnews\/ci_19598751\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The first few seconds seem to happen in slow motion,&#8221; recounted Tarantino, who had only been in the water for a few minutes when he was attacked about 150 yards offshore at about 7 a.m. on Oct. 29. &#8220;I was still half asleep because I literally had just rolled out of bed about 20 minutes earlier. When it happened, when the shark hit me, it was kind of surreal, but I didn&#8217;t really feel scared.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The shark pulled him under and when he finally got free and saw all the blood in the water, that&#8217;s when he got scared.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I managed to get back on my board and started paddling, and that&#8217;s when I noticed my arm was bleeding,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t feeling any pain at that point &#8212; I&#8217;m sure I was already in shock and probably gone into overdrive a little bit. I started paddling in, moving slowly, seeing all the blood in the water and realizing that if he decided to come back and get me, there would be nothing I could do about it. That&#8217;s when it became really scary.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have to admit&#8211;stories of escaping from the jaws of a shark are our favorite shark attack stories and we&#8217;re glad Tarantino is still around to tell it. Click the link to read the rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/localnews\/ci_19598751\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Tarantino, a Monterey, California surfer, who was attacked by a shark in October while surfing at Marina State Beach is now reliving the story for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. &#8220;The first few seconds seem to happen in slow motion,&#8221; recounted Tarantino, who had only been in the water for a few minutes when he [&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\/27384"}],"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=27384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27387,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27384\/revisions\/27387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}