"In the moment, you just think you’re not going to come out of it alive unless you do something."
Do you consider yourself a brave and hearty soul, not easily rattled or put off your game? Like, Julian Wilson brave, swimming directly toward a shark attack in order to help a friend?
A hero?
If you answered “yes” I am certain that seventeen-year-old Perth surfer Sav Marafioti wishes you were in the water a few days ago when a shark began its attack.
He was out at Toms Surf Break in North Beach with many others when he felt that dreaded nudge.
And let us head toward Perth, and Australia’s Channel Nine News, for the very latest:
“As I put my leg down, I felt it again, so I’ve put my leg up and it’s grabbed my leg rope and started pulling down, and my leg rope’s just started to stretch. I thought I was going to die. I didn’t know what to do. I was stressing, I was screaming at everyone, and everyone just started paddling away from me. In the moment, you just think you’re not going to come out of it alive unless you do something.”
Absolutely terrifying, especially being abandoned like that. Everyone just paddling away and not a proud day for Perth surfers except one hale friend who stuck around.
Marafioti undid his leash, swam to that friend who paddled him in on his board.
A hero though… this whole two boys, one board setup seems very dangerous, like tempting fate, but no matter. Fortune favors the bold and it favored Marafioti who added, “You can’t explain how it feels to have an animal grabbing at you. I don’t wish it on anyone.”
“Except Carole Baskin.”
Just kidding. He didn’t say that part about Carole Baskin.
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I’m starting to pull for the sharks.
Wonder what Tom thinks
Of his surf break being used
For filthy shark porn
What happened to his board ?
A family in the Phillipine Islands are using it as a massage table.
but he’d like it back (at their expense)
This sounds like an indubitably authentic shark attack.
There we are–back to normal. Chas pleasuring his keyboard to shark attacks. With all the reflection and analyses of Surfer shutting down and what that means for surfing, and KVF’s ode to post-middle age surfing, this place had started to seem like a legit surf site. Way to act fast Chas to dispel any assumptions to the contrary.
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