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Teeth marks from a great white shark are proof of a San Diego kayaker s narrow brush with danger off the coast of Catalina Island.The incident happened as Danny McDaniel and Jon Chambers were kayaking Saturday morning near Ship Rock, about two miles east of Catalina. The excursion was part of a scuba diving trip coordinated by Power Scuba from the is stanley cup land s Boy Scouts camp. Felt push to the left, looked to right, giant great white shark a foot from my boot, said McDaniel. His upper half of body was out of the water, his dorsal fin was out of the water. Chamber stanley cups s was the first to notice the 19-foot shark before McDaniel turned around. Look at it and said, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap , said Chambers. I yelled at him to hit it. The shark had its jaws clamped on the back of the nine-foot-long kayak, inches from McDaniel. Saw a giant, triangular, conical-shaped head right there and a huge body. Just a massive body, said McDaniel.Both men said they were frozen in fear as the great white shark hung on to the kayak for four or five seconds.Eventually, the shark let go, leaving behind puncture wounds and two large teeth in the kayak. I don t think he took a full chomp. I think he just took a nibble and pushed, said McDaniel.The kayakers kept their paddles out of the water and did not move for several moments lest the shark return. McDaniel was literally froze stanley kubek n during that time.Despite the close encounter, McDaniel and Chambers continued with their plan to scuba dive later Saturda Bifu Alaska Girl Scouts to get relief loan for lost cookie sales
The National Hurricane Center is watching not one, but two different tropical disturbances in the eastern Pacific.If either of them becomes a tropical depression before Thursday, May 12, it will be the earliest a depression has ever formed there.The disturbance dubbed Invest 90E is a few hundred miles southwest off the coast of Costa Rica, and it has the best chance to break the record. It s slowly moving to the northwest, and the National Hurricane Center is currently giving it a 70 percent chance of becoming a tropi stanley cup cal depression in the next five days.The second disturbance is farther to the west and is likely to be absorbed by Invest 90E.If one of these becomes a named tropical storm, it will be called Tropical Storm Adrian.RELATED: Track tropical storms and hurricanes with the Storm Shield appNeither of these disturbances will likely af stanley mug fect the United States as most of them fizzle out in the colder waters if they move farther north, but portions of Central America could get some stormy, windy weather as a result.Both of these systems are developing at record early times, and they just happen to coincide with Hurricane Preparedness Week.Throughout the week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is educating people who live in stanley cup hurricane-prone areas how to prepare themselves for any hurricanes that may strike in the upcoming hurricane season.The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1 while the Eastern Pacific hurricane season begins on May 15.Follow Storm S |
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