Posted on 11/01/2014 12:30:22 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
A 34-year-old Kailua-Kona woman who was gripped in a struggle with a tiger shark off North Kohala feels fortunate to have escaped without deadly injury.
That McKenzie Clark made it out of the encounter with a 12- to 15-foot tiger shark with injuries only to fingers and a hand is likely because of a companion wrestling the shark and beating it with his fist.
Wargo grabbed the dorsal fin with both hands and the shark pulled him off the board. Wargo yelled for Clark to get on her board.
“I got my right hand free and I started hitting it as hard as I could between the gills and the dorsal fin,” Wargo said.
“It felt like I was going to break my hand. About the sixth hit, I felt the shark shudder and turn away from her.”
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Channeling his inner Chuck Norris.
Wow. Thatz beautiful.
And this is why I don’t swim in the ocean. Why purposefully lower myself on the food chain?
without clicking the link it sounds like they might have started it.
lol
Consider renaming your business, Mr Wargo.
Nothing like turning yourself into a king-sized fishing lure.
Now there’s a viewpoint.
LOL
The fish was pulling so hard she could not raise her arms up to un hook the reel from the harness. Finally she said she was able to wriggle one shoulder out of the harness and then the other.
She made it back to the surface and she was rescued. The others on the boat said they would see her for a minute or 2 but then she was too deep and they lost view of her. Luckily the boat was near when she finally made it to the surface.
We know Brian Wargo; we set Brian Wargo him with his first web presence when he came to Hawaii. He’s a hero!
I guess it isn’t very likely but I bet there are some people who would do it out there.
I’ve snorkled around sharks.
They’re beautiful.
I spent a whole summer down in the Caribbean, once, many years ago, and did a lot of swimming around the coral reefs after working time was over.
It was incredible.
But I made sure never to go in before putting on a face mask and LOOKING, first, to check for sharks and barracudas. Also, when in, looking around every once in a while to be sure nothing snuck up from behind. There were moray eels, too, but not a problem if you stayed away from their dens.
this is why good fishermen(women) always wear a sharp knife on their belt . Especially handliners
nope, Bite Me is also the best little restaurant in the Honokohau harbor .
OK. That does it. No more water, other than the bathtub, for me! :)
Oh, Lawd - now someone will post a story about dying in the bathtub, LOL!
“Yes. Ive been to Kauai. In, quick snorkel and OUT, LOL!”
Been diving in Kauai several times. Tried to get close enough to a shark for a good photo but never could. I’ll bet she didn’t have a camera with and blew a good photo op!
That is EXACTLY why I never take bubble baths. 100% of the bath-shark attacks worldwide were in bubble baths. They’re a massacre waiting to happen.
I guess it just depends upon to whom the request is made.
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