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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My daughter was swimming in about 2.5 feet of water near Honolulu last weekend about 50 yards offshore and a 6 ft tiger shark came within a foot of her. Scared her to death.
Scares me to death thinking of her swimming in those waters.
The Manta night dive is one of those unforgettable things in life to do.
“You all know me. You know I can take care of this shark problem for you. I’ll need ten cases of beer, a small nuclear device and a toilet plunger.”
Wait till the PETA team sees this and sues him for being cruel to a fish. And here i thought “people and fish can coexist”
Oops!
and don’t forget that s..t where the Lib Governor appoints another lib to fill a Lib Senator’s seat as in In NO Way’s seat vacated by death and then never holds an election to fill it????????
I KNEW IT, LOL! :)
Hubby and brother were advanced divers for many years. One of the funniest stories hubby tells is when they were in the middle of a kelp forest and all of a sudden brother was gone...all hubby could see was bubbles going up. A sea lion had whooshed brother really fast and with his limited vision all he could think was shark. lol
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