{"id":1778,"date":"2008-09-08T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T04:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2008-09-08T21:04:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T04:04:12","slug":"shark-tows-surfer-out-to-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"Shark Tows Surfer Out To Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sharkhoz.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sharkhoz.jpg','popup','width=290,height=200,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\/2008\/09\/sharkhoz-tm.jpg\" height=\"137\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sharkhoz\" \/><\/a><strong>John Morgan<\/strong>, 51, the manager of surf shop <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maddog.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maddog Byron Bay<\/a><\/strong> was towed &#8220;like a jet ski&#8221; yesterday at Clarkes Beach when an 8 to 10-foot shark got caught up in his leash.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had just come off a wave when I saw a large swirl of water,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was then suddenly hauled backwards. . . . &#8220;It felt like I was riding behind a powerful jet ski. . . .The water was dirty so I couldn&#8217;t make out what type of shark it was but I knew from the splashing white water that it was roughly eight to ten foot (3m),&#8221; Mr Morgan said. . . . All I could think about was holding on and hoping the shark would untangle itself,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eventually that is what happened and Morgan paddle directly back into shore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedaily.com.au\/news\/2008\/sep\/09\/shark-towed-me-jet-ski-surfer\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sunshine Coast Daily<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Morgan, 51, the manager of surf shop Maddog Byron Bay was towed &#8220;like a jet ski&#8221; yesterday at Clarkes Beach when an 8 to 10-foot shark got caught up in his leash. I had just come off a wave when I saw a large swirl of water,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was then suddenly hauled [&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":[16,13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}