Quote Originally Posted by Little Jane View Post
I know to tap the shark on the nose if it comes at you, the nose is highly sensitive and it usually swims away when you do that...going "oh crap they found my weak spot!"

I almost drowned one while boogie boarding...those waves were huge....hit my head against a rock though underwater
Oh man I should of tried that. When we got back to the boat Pete tried whapping it with the oar (it was really close by then), but I told him no because I thought that would make it even more angry. Don't worry it was a motor boat so we didn't have to row all the way back, we just had an oar in there.

Oh I forgot a part. We had sped away a good deal (the shark came <i>really</i> close when we had just reached the boat, so yes I do think it would have eaten us DarkLady!) when Pete said he forgot a piece of his scuba gear and wanted to go back to get it. I was like, ARE YOU CRAZY? His rationale was that it cost him 70 bucks for that thing (it was a goggle/mouthpiece set) and he didn't want to buy a new one. I told him I'd pay him 70 bucks to forget about it, but he insisted. It was sentimental or something. So we went back. It was calm when we got back to our spot. Like, death calm. I tell you as I sit here today it was even more eerie than when the shark was chasing us. Picture the water perfectly still (there were some small waves earlier), not a sound except for our breathing and the low hum of our small boat. We looked for the shark but couldn't see anything. At all. Even the horizon was clouded in some fog. We crept up to Pete's gear floating along and got it and then got the hell out of there. Man what a day. I still get shivers typing about it. Sorry to run on like this.