The moment great white shark attacks kayaker
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In a terrifying scene straight out of “Jaws,” a kayaker is seen attacked by a great white shark in California’s Monterey Bay.
The newly released video shows diving instructor Brian Correiar paddling March 18 when the shark struck his 14-foot kayak.
“I heard a loud bang as my kayak and I flew into the air. I landed outside my boat, look back to it and to my horror saw a large great white shark no more than three feet away had my kayak in its mouth,” Correiar wrote in a blog post, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
He said he desperately tried to get away from the predator, portrayed as a “ferocious man eater” in the 1975 flick.
“I scrambled away from my boat as fast as I could and started kicking towards shore — really wishing that I was wearing fins!” Correiar wrote.
Meanwhile, Gene Mace, who happened to see the attack from shore, whipped out his camera and began shooting the frightful scene.
“He got knocked out of his kayak by a shark,” Mace told his wife, who called for help.
“See the fin? It’s swimming toward the guy now,” he said, KDVR reported. “That’s a big-ass shark. The shark is wider than the kayak.”
The great white proceeded to chew along the entire length of the kayak while Correiar tried in vain to call the Coast Guard with his marine radio.
“At this point I was really nervous, I was sure I was done,” Correiar told the National Geographic. “It was like a horror movie.”
He saw a small sailboat appear suddenly and began waving, hoping those aboard would recognize his distress signal.
The sailboat skipper — Lt. Cmdr. Kyle Franklin, a Naval Postgraduate School doctoral student — saw Correiar and rushed to his rescue, but Correiar was too exhausted to climb aboard.
Franklin then called the Coast Guard, which sent a bigger boat whose crew members helped pull the kayaker out of the water.
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