SAVAGE YOUNG SHARK
MAN'S SHOULDER GRIPPED JAWS OPENED WITH KNIFE A three-foot blue-nosed shark that attacked a fisherman in two foot of water off Moreton Island, Brisbano, hung so tenaciously to its victim that eveu when it was dragged out of the water its jaws had to be prised open with a sheathknife.
Edgar Woodloy, aged 20, in company with his employer, Mr.' Frank Day, of Wypnum, and others, was hauling a net when the shark was seen in the net trying to break through the meshes.* Woodley was sitting in two feet of water clearing the net when tho shark darted at him and caught him below tho left shoulder. Woodley jumped out of tho water, but the shark hung on. To ease the weight the young man lifted the shark with his right hand by tho gills, ar.d his companions also gripped the shark, but it clung on until a knife was used. Woodley suffered a number of incised wounds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22657, 19 February 1937, Page 14
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162SAVAGE YOUNG SHARK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22657, 19 February 1937, Page 14
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