Tremendous video shown below of kayaker Brian Correiar soon after a white shark has dumped him from his kayak.  The shark continues to butt the kayak and then swims off.  Brian is the yellowish blob visible from time to time in the video frame.  Comments he made after the event to the guy who caught this video: There was no dog [in my kayak]. You may have seen my paddle and other gear go flying when the shark hit my kayak. Based on my distance from my boat and what the shark was doing It looks like your video started 5-10 minutes after the shark hit my boat. I got away with no injuries other than major bruising on my feet from trying to get up into the sail boat. My kayak was a total loss. The rudder was bent, the hull bottom dented where the shark hit, and bite marks over all of its 14-ft length. The kayak manufacturer gave me a new bot as a gift. I took it our to the same spot two weeks ago. The old boat is now a trophy on my guest room wall.

Note:  This attack happened in March.  Correiar, a veteran of the ocean and a diving master, has ocean safety experience.  Quote from the article linked below: Just three feet away from him, on the other side of his red kayak, was the shark—its head above the water with its jaws latched around one end. Correiar says he froze in shock, then quickly scrambled out of his kayak and began kicking to shore, staying on his back so he could watch the shark. The shark proceeded to munch along the entire length of the kayak while never leaving the water’s surface, easily rolling it over length-wise like a toy.  “It was like a horror movie,” says Correiar. “The shark came toward me, dropped the kayak, then dove straight down below me where I couldn’t see it.”

Another comment from YouTube: Very lucky ... you can see the shark gets entangled in the kayak ... I think this kept the shark's attention enough to make it believe it was being attacked back ... I think this saved you and made the shark retreat ... crazy

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The Dave Martin shark attack of April 25, 2008 was the first fatality in 50 years in San Diego County.  It happened at one of the calmest and safest of local beaches -- Tide Park -- at approximately 7:30 a.m., just beyond the breakers in a very low tide.

 

The shark, a female great white, 15-16 feet in length, with a 22-inch jaw, circled beneath a pod of early-morning swimmers and came back to attack the biggest person in the very center of the group.  She grabbed Dave across both legs, hoisted him out of the water, and bit him up to 7 times.  It was not a case of mistaken identity or a "hit and run."  It was a deliberate intent to kill.
 

The question is -- Why?  The attack defied all norms and instilled great fear in beach-goers.  As someone who has swum over 1000 miles in the ocean and most of them at that very beach, I had to learn more.  This website is the result of my journey.

The summer of 2008 was a tough one for many.  Someone told me, "Next year will be easier."  It's true that time and distance are good ingredients for peace, but what I found out needs to be known.  I embarked on a deep, new learning experience.  Graphic details in the books I read left images in my mind.  I met people who had their own philosophies.  I developed a wholly new understanding of the ocean and its  apex predator -- carcharodon carcharias, the great white shark.