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2011/10/14 11:56:15
Subject: This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
Surfer Stood on Back of Great White Shark and Lived
Thought he was on a rock, until he saw a dorsal finBy Greg Wilson | Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 | Updated 8:49 AM PDTView Comments (103) | Email| Print
This is most definitely not a rock.
Doug Niblack was surfing off the coast of Seaside, Ore., when his board hit what he initially thought was a rock. But when he looked down, he saw a dorsal fin and soon realized he was directly on top of the world's most fearsome shark. Then, the beast's tail began thrashing and Niblack jumped off and paddled to shore.
"It was pretty terrifying just seeing the shape emerge out of nothing and just being under me," he told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "And the fin coming out of the water. It was just like the movies."
Jake Marks, an off-duty Coast Guard officer who was nearby, said he saw Niblack suddenly standing up, with water churning around him. Although he didn't see the shark, he did see a large shape swimming off between them just beneath the surface.
"I have no reason to doubt there was a shark out there," said Marks. "With the damage to his board, the way he was yelling and trembling afterwards — there is no other explanation for that."
Ralph Collier, president of the Shark Research Committee in Canoga Park, Calif., and director of the Global Shark Attack File in Princeton, N.J., told the AP such encounters are extremely rare, but not unprecedented.
Niblack said he was standing on the shark for as long as four seconds before it swam away, at first pulling his surfboard, which was tethered to his ankle.
"I'm just screaming bloody murder," he said. "I'm just yelling, 'Shark!' I thought for sure I was gone.
"There was a moment there when everything was going on, I just kind of made my peace," he added. "I honestly thought I was going to die. Then paddling back in, I was praying the whole time. Like, 'Don't let it be following me.'"
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2011/10/14 12:03:11
Subject: This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
While i would love to believe this was true my skepticism meter is going into overload. Stood on a Great White, by accident no less?? I'm sorry, I dont think so somehow... I mean their not the oceans apex predator for nothing and i doubt that some surfer is going to get to stand on one without subsequently getting ripped into biddy bits. I think what may be more likely is that the shark breached underneath him and it mearly appeared that he was standing on it. As for 4 seconds? Well everyone knows time slows down when something spectacular happens .
Pics or didn't happen is what im trying to say here.
2011/10/14 14:05:05
Subject: Re:This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
Brother Azul wrote:Pics or didn't happen is what im trying to say here.
yeah. Either that or "I dunno lol"
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2011/10/14 15:06:07
Subject: Re:This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
I assume he did, in fact, hit a rather large fish (could have been a shark, could have been something else) with his surfboard. I also assume he started screaming and was really scared.
The rest of the story is a combination of pure conjecture, ignorance, boasting, and straightforward lies.
It's terrible to find that you're accidentally standing on a great white shark. Even though the last thing you want to do is antagonize it by dropping something heavy on it's head, you can't help but gak a brick.
The Great White isn't "the worlds most fearsome shark"
I would say that the bull/zambezi (same shark)is.
Sounds like it was just crusing along and he surfed into it and freaked it out.
If it'd wanted to attack him it would have come up from under him.
By the way how does he even know it was a great white?
Still... something to tell the grandchildren!
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2011/10/14 15:34:15
Subject: Re:This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
I assume he did, in fact, hit a rather large fish (could have been a shark, could have been something else) with his surfboard. I also assume he started screaming and was really scared.
The rest of the story is a combination of pure conjecture, ignorance, boasting, and straightforward lies.
I screamed like a (very sweary) little girl when a small brown mouse jumped over my shoulder from the top shelf in my own shed a few years ago, and i'm a real manly man and everything.
That being the case getting gak-scared over a big fish/shark eyeing up a nibble on your lower half seems like the right treatment to the situation.
I trust Zombie Robert Shaw was engaged to admister swift fishocide justice to all involved.
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2011/10/14 15:47:34
Subject: This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
"Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladWHOOSH HERE I COME SHARKY SHARK YOU'LL NOT BE EATING ME AGIN!!!"
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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2011/10/14 16:13:44
Subject: This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
I neve have screamed at something scary. I actually get a clearer mind.
*runs of to start own thread*
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2011/10/14 17:35:59
Subject: Re:This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
I'm so bummed. I have wanted to learn to surf since I moved to Oregon in 2001. Now in the last few years Great Whites have been spotted and have been attacking off my precious shore. Never more will I think of surfing these beautiful waters, never more. It really sucks too, the water is way too cold to swim in, so surfing is really the only thing to do in the water at the shore.
if nobody knows, this is what it looks like
guess we will just be "stuck" hiking and camping out there now, gonna have to learn to surf somewhere else
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2011/10/14 18:27:31
Subject: This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
Given the habits of great whites I have no issue believing that the guy could have ran into a shallow running great white. Personally I know I'd never be able to wear that particular bathing suit ever again.
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2011/10/14 18:34:05
Subject: This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
warpcrafter wrote:Doesn't matter if it's true, it's been posted on the internet, and so that story is gonna get him laid for the rest of his life. Case closed.
warpcrafter wrote:Doesn't matter if it's true, it's been posted on the internet, and so that story is gonna get him laid for the rest of his life. Case closed.
If that's the case then I would suggest that you are too easily impressed.
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2011/10/15 12:43:11
Subject: Re:This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
Guys, it can happen. And completely accidentally, and unintentionally as well, so stop being so cynical. I mean, it happened to me whilst I was out cycling the other day. One minute I was out cycling in North Devon, the next moment, I look down and there's a shark beneath me. Happens more often than you'd think.
Pic to prove it.
2011/10/15 13:20:26
Subject: This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
warpcrafter wrote:Doesn't matter if it's true, it's been posted on the internet, and so that story is gonna get him laid for the rest of his life. Case closed.
If that's the case then I would suggest that you are too easily impressed.
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2011/10/15 21:27:41
Subject: Re:This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
I should point out, being from Oregon myself, that we don't really have Great Whites. The most likely creature being surfed on was the Tiger Shark, which can be a mean son of a gun.
2011/10/17 08:38:18
Subject: This is one of those times when its perfectly acceptable to scream like a little girl
"Shark!" isn't actually what is being yelled by most people.
The language centres get screwed up by the flight response (YOU can fight a shark all you like, I'll be the one leaving you to it) and caught between yelling "Sh*t!" and "Faaaaark!" (aka the "crow call"), it comes out combined into "Shaaaaaark!".
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
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