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Stuart G

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Tue May 30, 2017, 08:43 AM May 2017

Great White Shark Leaps into Fisherman's Boat..CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/world/great-white-shark-boat-australia-trnd/index.html


Fisherman Terry Selwood, 73, is still trying to wrap his head around how it all happened.
Selwood was fishing off of Evans Head on Australia's east coast on Saturday when a great white shark suddenly leaped out of the ocean beside him.

"The bloody thing just jumped in my boat," Selwood told ABC News Australia. The shark was later measured at almost 9 feet (2.7 meters) long.

"As he was coming down, he hit me on the arm. He knocked me off balance, of course, and I just fell on my hands and knees," said Selwood. "I looked there to the side and ... (thought) 'this is a bloody shark.'" Despite being stunned and bloodied, the fisherman reacted quickly.

"He was just doing the mad dance and he was thrashing everywhere, so I got up as quick as I could, I grabbed the rocket launcher up the top, and I climbed up on the gunnel," Selwood said. Then he called for help on his radio.
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