Head-butts surfer, knocks out two front teeth…
Only eight days after a free-diver filmed a fifteen-foot Great White swimming towards him off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island, a surfer has reportedly had been hit by a White while surfing Banyans, one of the most popular breaks in the Kailua-Kona area.
Details are scant at the mo but we’re told the surfer has identified the shark as a Great White and said it came at him with its mouth open and hit him so hard in the head it knocked out two of his teeth.
The White dragged the surfer under and, for whatever reason, let him go.
Another surfer paddled the man in.
He is reportedly “deeply traumatised.”
Although Great Whites in Hawaii are rare-ish enough, mostly its Tigers doing the damage (see: Bethany Hamilton), free-diver Deron Verbeck shot some pretty wild vision of a fifteen-foot White swimming up at him from a hundred feet below while driving off Kona on November 26.
“It just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and I was like, ‘that is for sure 100% a Great White,” Verbeck told KHON2.
In an IG post, the president of the Marine Conservation Science Institute Michael Domeier said “this beautiful female is from the Central California Tribe or Pt. Conception Tribe” of Great Whites, adding, “This shark was spotted literally right in front of my house! This is the stuff that gets me out of bed in the morning with a smile!”
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Knocked some teeth out might b a first. Sounds personal. To boot whitey is protected by the man. True white privilege. If it had stripes or was a black tip it’d be a different story. J
Shark attack in ocean Grove, Vic get on it guys!!
Been there, done that.
#Stopbiting
Are these tribes similar to Wall Street bankers?
Sweet jeebus…I hope I never see that smiley face.
When did this happen, DR?
I just surfed Lyman’s (about 200 yards south of Banyans) yesterday.
Not to worry as the shark prefers vaccinated surfers
Saturday at about 5:55pm; watch the surfline cam rewind the attack is on it!
So now Great Whites off California are members of tribes? TRIBES?! How appropriate.
Tribes called west!