Kevin wrote: <SNIP>>>>> By virtue of the size, 16 to 20 feet we may have a slight advantage but I'm reminded of the story of a double found off Monterey, CA with no occupants and a VERY large shark bite. When? what? no one knows but it is a spooky tale around the campfire.<<<<<<SNIP> I don't think I've heard of this one. I'm wondering if it isn't really a mis-retelling and combining of other incidents, one off of Santa Barbara (the other near Monterey-see "Deep Trouble"). Two paddlers in two fiberglass sit-on-top kayaks were missing off of Santa Barbara. One kayak was found with the bottom caved in (the other was tied to it). The woman's body was found with numerous small shark bites on it obscuring one larger bite to the extent that the species of shark that had made it was not identifiable. The man was never found. Speculation was that they had been attacked by a shark but since no one saw what happened we can't be sure of that. Interestingly today a personal post from South Africa had the following sentence in it: "PS: We recently had a 5-6m great white buzz/attack 4 paddlers in yellow and orange plastic sit-in Prijon kayaks". Matt Broze http://www.marinerkayaks.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Aug 07 2002 - 06:18:26 PDT
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