entry 10 Thursday, October 17/13

Hawaii surfer escapes shark attack by throwing punches

 

A 25-year-old Hawaii surfer says he's lucky to be alive after surviving a close encounter with a shark off Kauai. Jeff Horton was surfing Sunday morning with many others when he spotted a dark shadow move toward him. He told Fox News after the attack. While he was surfing for about 3 hours he was looking for a big wave to surf on, while he was looking down he thought he saw a sting ray. He kicked it many times and got on his board ready to surf away while he was knocked off by a shark. While he flew off the board he landed on the shark grabbed the sharks fin and started punching. He got on top of the shark and started punching its head, he punched his mouth a couple of times and got it in the eye once. He knew he was going to die unless he put up his best fight. When Jeff punched the shark in the eye the shark spit out Jeff’s board and started to go after Jeff. Jeff chased his board got on it and started surfing to shore with another surfer panicking swimming for his life. While he was swimming he saw the sharks shadow following him underwater. The shark strangely was not attacking, thankfully Jeff survived and put the board up in his room because it was a really cool experience because the shark’s teeth imprinted on the board.

My opinion is that sharks are really dangerous creatures. Surfers are taking the risk of getting hurt because they know how many dangerous creatures are out in the ocean. I am not saying he deserved it but it was his fault that he was going to deep. Their should be a limit to were you go, be safe and don’t go out to far because the shark will think that you are a threat and attack. Jeff is lucky the shark did not attack again when he could have.

 

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