ATTACKED BY SHARK

Evening Star, Issue 19618, 26 July 1927, Page 5

ATTACKED BY SHARK

TERRIFYING EXPERIENCES Twu young men, L. Gordon and T. Kemp, who were fishing in a I l-lt boat off' Bellambi Reel, on the South Coast ot New South Males, lately had a terrifying experience. They had not been fishing long when they lolt a severe bump under the keel ol the boat, and, looking over the side, they saw the disappearing form of a largo shark.

The youths immediately pulled in their lines ami rowed another quarter oi' a mile or so nearer the shore belore again commencing to fish. The boat had not been in its new position long before its occupants again felt a terrific blow on the boat, so .severe that the bow lilted 2ft out of the water, and a sheet of spray was thrown high into the air. This was seen by fishermen ou the beach a few hundred yards away. Again the huge body of the monster was seen by tlio youths, who, without further ado, pulled lor the shore as fast as they could. The monster had apparently followed the boat in from its former position. • This is not the first time that a shark has attacked fishing boats in the same vicinity On June 15, 1923, a boat containing four men was attacked by a huge shark. Three of the men were thrown- into the water, and their bodies were never scon again. The fourth man, who .remained in the boat, was the only survivor. A week hater another fishing boat in the same locality was attacked by a shark, but this time the occupants escaped. A constable who searched the beach for the bodies of the victims of the disaster when the three men were lost believes that another tragedy, when a boat which bad contained a- solitary fisherman was washed up on the beach, was duo to the same cause. He also believes that it is the same shark which has made a!! the attacks, and says that he has seen the monster on many occasions. It is about 12ft to lift long, and he believes that it is of the brown whaler species.