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File photo of a great white shark. Photo: Helen Bamford<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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A Kayak angler has survived to tell his own shark’s tale after one took a nip out of his boat, the Herald Online reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe shark came from underneath me, the same way it klaps a seal. I never saw him until it happened,\u201d Werner Coetzee, 35, told the newspaper about the encounter which took place just off Noordhoek in Port Elizabeth just before dawn on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Coetzee said after the great white shark emerged out of the water it knocked him and the front of his boat so hard that he was flung up into the air.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a Pinnacle kayak which takes a big punch, but he knocked me and the front of the kayak about 2.5 metres minimum out of the water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy kayak and all my tackle weigh 38 kilograms and I weigh 102 kilograms \u2013 so you can imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coetzee said when he landed back in the water, his kayak landed next to him but upside down.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was when I saw it was a shark. It was about four metres long. He was just a few feet away from me, biting into the front of the kayak.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe eyeballed each other and I saw him change his attention from the kayak to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coetzee said he then started pulling himself onto the hull of the boat.<\/p>\n
\u201cI lay there for about a minute, although it seemed like much longer, waiting for the next hit. But it never came.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coetzee said the shark moved away – probably because he did not regard the fibreglass the kayak was made out of as a delicacy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe obviously didn\u2019t like the taste of fibreglass and that is why he moved off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coetzee said two of his fishing rods and his sunglasses had not been as lucky as he had – they disappeared during the attack. – Sapa<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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