It was like a scene from the movie “Jaws,” a great white shark circles a fisherman’s small skiff and then launches itself into the craft nearly knocking it over. “It was a full-on slam attack from down below,” Davis told KSBW-TV. That’s how fisherman Mark Davis described an incident off Capitola on the northern end of Monterey Bay on Friday morning, when a shark sank its teeth into the bow of his 15-foot boat. “The shark will bite a boat for a variety of reasons,” he said. Eddie Rhee-Pizano, state parks lifeguard supervisor for Santa Cruz, said sharks do occasionally bite boats.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 13, 2016 21:19 UTC