Girl Battles Shark With Boogie Board – A 14-year-old New Zealand girl managed to fight off an attacking shark armed only with a boogie board.
Teenager Lydia Ward was attacked after stepping on a “big, gray, slippery thing” in waist-high water off the southern city of Invercargill.
The shark wrapped its jaws around her waist but let go after she whacked it with the board, she told the New Zealand Herald.
“She’s a really cool-headed little girl. There was no screaming or anything, or hysterics. She just came up to the car, she looked a bit shaky, and she said, ‘oh, I’ve just been attacked by a shark. And I was like, ‘What?’”, said Fiona Ward, Lydia’s mother.
“I showed Dad and he didn’t really believe me but then I showed him my wetsuit with all the blood coming out and he believed me,” Lydia said.
Lydia managed to escape serious injury but was treated in a local hospital for two of the deeper puncture wounds.
The teen has no plans to return to the ocean any time soon.
“It sort of put me off the beach, but I’m still fine with rivers and lakes,” she said. “I’ll stick to them now.”
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April 28th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
you go girl!!!