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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12765, 11 April 1910, Page 4

■ - .'- a Two fishermen while :af ter schnapper in a fishing boat in Symirid's Channel near Melbourne, had an .alarming experience. They.noticed a shark, about 12ft in length, take "several hooked j schnapper off the lines. One of the : fishermen hauled up a fish very rapidrly, and the shark, following it from a considerable depth, shot .Tight out of theiwate'r and landiea o r n the stern of; the boat. The sharks -Head" was within a few inches of one ofthe fishermen at whom, it- snapped viciously. The shark ilipped off *fche boat before the men could do anything. On reaching land -the : fishermen found that the stern of the boat had been twisted and damaged,