Saturday, October 22, 2005

Salmon Creek Beach surfer describes shark attack

The water was eerily glassy and calm. Then a shark at least 17 feet long attacked from behind.

"It was weird. I was sitting out there thinking, 'Wow, this feels shark-y to me,'" Megan Halavais, 20, said Thursday. "It was straight out of 'Jaws.'"

"It's big. I couldn't fit my arms around its tail. Its fin, its main dorsal fin, was like taller than me," Halavais recounted for reporters at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital as she sat in a wheelchair, her bandaged leg extended in front of her.

(ABCNews report) - More...