Adventure with Sharks.

Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10633, 5 February 1909, Page 1

Adventure with Sharks.

'.».,■ TQie Melbourne Ag« e,\nt&^ that a wellHkn«wn_^lnidSy Ireii3eat at Blaclt Roßt and friends wore fishing 1 foi schnapper near the outer sandbank one morning, when suddenly, their boa,t^ luckily a large and heavy one wins surrounded by thrfee or four j large sharks. The lady had ju-st aauight -;a'.£ne IschnlaipiDer, and was ! hiaulimg 1 it into tne boat, when one of the shjarks sprang ouit of the watjr and sriatlcihed the fish from, the line. I Laiter oniei of the other inemibersi of the party cauglLt another fine' fish, and once more a shark lifted it® head above, water, bent on am easily secured, meal. This tiniie, ihioiwevetr, the 1 nngiler was. too quick for 1 the marauder, arid landed the catch safely in the iboalt The shairk displayed intense anger at being disappointed. It lashed with its ta.il at the boat in fury, and next it got undemeflth and tried to capsize the painty. The boat was, 'however, too strong, aaidl thosa aboard too experienced and steady of nerve for anything 1 serious tie ihiappen j Nevertheless thei incident; was'exciting enough, and had, the 1 boat been siniall and in less aaipaible hands a caibastraphe would . have been. difficuilt to avoid.