Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA29085; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 00:28:33 -0700 Return-Path: <shred@netcom.com-DeleteThis> Received: from netcom10.netcom.com by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA011432512; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 00:28:32 -0700 Received: by netcom10.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id AAA26133; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 00:00:39 -0700 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 00:00:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Edward W. Scott" <shred@netcom.com-DeleteThis> Subject: Re: WIND_TALK digest 97 To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis In-Reply-To: <950930000822_112911238@emout05.mail.aol.com-DeleteThis> Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9509302337.A25416-0100000@netcom10> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Someone tell me that this is another one of Luigi's stories.
Ed Scott ShrEdding SF Bay
shred@netcom.com-DeleteThis ..Windwing/ASD..
On Fri, 29 Sep 1995 Pochski@aol.com-DeleteThis wrote:
> I just read this on rec.windsurfing. Wow! Probably the single most
> influential reason I'm not sailing on the ocean.
>
> Subject: GREAT WHITE ATTACK AT DAVENPORT
> From: benjamin@novell.com-DeleteThis (Benjamin Cristi)
> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 02:55:49 GMT
> Message-ID: <1995Sep30.025549.7352@novell.com-DeleteThis>
>
> A windsurfer was attacked at Davenport CA just outside the downwind
> break, around 5:15PM today (fri 9/29/95). He had just completed an
> outside jibe and was not yet planing, when, without warning the shark
> bit and held onto the back of his board. He jumped off and swam away,
> then moments later when the shark let go, swam back to his rig and sailed
> in.
>
> There were teeth marks on both rails of the board, on one side between
> his rear and front straps, and on the other side near the fin, a span
> of maybe 2 feet. Just about everyone came in right after. A few stayed
> out, no doubt due to the primo conditions (I was planing on a 4.7, and
> the sets were well overhead).
>
> The victim is fine (thank God), suffering only a slight cut on his
> foot. This could have happened to anyone of us.
>
> Ben Cristi (bcristi@novell.com-DeleteThis, 408-744-1020)
>
>
>
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