Kayaker Survives Great White Shark Attack at Pacifica Beach

NBC Bay Area ^ | Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 | George Kiriyama

[nickcarraway]

California shark-attack survivor shares his story

A kayaker on Tuesday reportedly survived a great white shark attack at a beach in Pacifica just outside San Francisco.

The teeth marks say it all. Pacifica kayaker Micah Flansburg knows he's lucky. He was kayaking near the point off of Linda Mar Beach with a friend.

"And there was a huge explosion of water behind me and I instantly knew something just wasn't right," Flansburg said.

And he also instantly knew he was looking at a great white shark.

"It was, it looked just like the Discovery Channel. Shark's eyes were rolled up in the back of his head. I saw his gums and all his fangs bared. His whole head was halfway out of the water," Flansburg said.

The great white clamped its sharp teeth into the kayak's plastic and started thrashing it around.

"I was literally hanging on for dear life," Flansburg said.

For 10 seconds, the shark battled the kayak.

"It was sucking the boat under. Ripping it all around and I was just hanging on," Flansburg said. "When it let go. It did a big circle around my kayak and I thought it was coming in to get me again."

But the shark swam away. Flansburg knows it could have been much worse. But he lived to tell the tale.

"It was half shock. And just kind of elation," he said. "The biggest fish story you could ever tell is getting attacked by a great white shark. It just never happens."

[nickcarraway]

Video.

[schm0e]

Lookout!

[RWB Patriot]

Sounds like a test-bite. Shark realized what it had in its mouth wasn’t prey or even really edible, so it let go.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

He's going to need a bigger kayak.

[RandallFlagg]

"Some shakin'. Tenderizin'.
Down ya go."

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From underneath a kayak looks a lot like a big tasty seal.

[Huskrrrr]

Sounds like a test-bite.

True, often times a surfer’s wetsuit leaves a bad taste in the shark’s mouth. Some are lucky and the shark loses interest.

[RandallFlagg]

Oh, good LORD!

The, “Victim,” and the freeking reporter said that the shark has, “Fangs.”

Vampire shark?
*facepalm*

[Moltke]

"It just never happens."

It just happened to you, dude.

[slapshot]

Maybe it is a cleaned up version of @^(*&T)ing huge teeth

[Jack Hydrazine]

Dem sharks do have fangs!



Ain't they pretty?

[Daffynition]

[jonascord]

"Maybe it is a cleaned up version of @^(*&T)ing huge teeth"

The comment about having shat himself being deleted entirely...

[CommerceComet]

From underneath a kayak looks a lot like a big tasty seal.

Which is why I could never figure out why people would kayak into orca pods. The Innuit won't which should tell you something. If an orca mistakes your kayak for a floating seal, you probably won't survive to tell the story.

[driftdiver]

shark bling

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The orca is also known as the KILLER WHALE for a reason...

[22202NOVA]

But there are no known cases of orca attacks on people, so far as I know.

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Dead men tell no tales.

[advertising guy]

well except me then....had a 24 ft sailboat in Ca and an Orca slammed it tryin to turn me over....

[22202NOVA]

Or perhaps, as the orca says, burp.