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| Shark photobombs young surfer's big wave moment in Australia | Shark photobombs young surfer's big wave moment in Australia |
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| A man photographing his 10-year-old son surfing captured more than either of them bargained for when he snapped the boy sharing a wave with a shark. | A man photographing his 10-year-old son surfing captured more than either of them bargained for when he snapped the boy sharing a wave with a shark. |
| Chris Hasson was taking pictures of Eden off Samurai beach, Port Stephens, eastern Australia, this week when he realised that he had photographed a twisting shark – thought to be a great white - just below the surface on an apparent collision course with his son. | Chris Hasson was taking pictures of Eden off Samurai beach, Port Stephens, eastern Australia, this week when he realised that he had photographed a twisting shark – thought to be a great white - just below the surface on an apparent collision course with his son. |
| “I quickly called him in and whistled,” Hasson told Associated Press. “He saw a shape in the wave and thought it was seaweed and felt something as he went over the top – he got his leg rope caught on something but he thought nothing of it until he saw the photo.” | |
| Andrew Chin, a shark researcher at James Cook University, said it was possibly a small great white, which was “spooked and … [was] rolling away from the board to escape it”. | |
| Eden expressed relief he did not see the animal until he was safe on the beach. “I was lucky I didn’t fall off,” he said. The encounter did not stop him getting back in the water the next day. | Eden expressed relief he did not see the animal until he was safe on the beach. “I was lucky I didn’t fall off,” he said. The encounter did not stop him getting back in the water the next day. |
| The incident comes after a kitesurfer’s close encounter with a great white shark off the west Australian coastearlier this month. |