TOWED TO SEA
BY HOOKED SHARK
FIGHT IN ROUGH WATER
(Received 1.45 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. A man who was fishing from a small boat at Sussex. Inlet hooked a twelve-foot shark, which headed for the open sea, dragging the boat with great rapidity. A choppy sea running made the position dangerous, but the fisherman hung on, the fight with the monster continuing for an hour and a half, till fearing he would be swamped as he was dragged through the increasing waves, the fisherman Cut loose. The water was then too roygh to row back, and the boat was drifting further seaward when it was picked up by a passing steamer. The man was then almost exhausted.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 8 July 1925, Page 5
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