How big was the shark?
We spent the majority of the weekend with a shark researcher named Ralph Collier of the Shark Research Committee. He came by the house with Jeff Curr, the independent film producer, and his wife, Katrina Gennero. They filmed Ralph interviewing me. It’s going to run in August during Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. Ralph was looking at my scars and also photographs that were taken in the emergency room- probably within 2 hours of the attack. He said, based on location and size of the wounds, he estimated that the shark was probably around 15 or 16 feet, which is consistent with what a few other people had reported.
Did Ralph have any comments regarding the severity of the attack?
He distinguishes between a predatory attack and an investigatory bite. He said, while he has not firmed up all of his preliminary conclusions, he feels pretty confidently that this was an investigatory bite.
He felt that from the shark’s perspective, it was very gentle and it was essentially just checking me out. This lead me to believe that if this were a predatory attack the bite would have been much more severe, much more vicious.
Wow! It probably would have just ripped one of your legs off
Related posts:
