Two escape shark attack
TWO CAPE Town men had a hair-raising encounter with a great white shark when the predator attacked the surfski of one of the paddlers at the weekend.
Three hours before Trevor Wright’s ordeal at Sunny Cove, Fish Hoek, the beach was closed because of a shark sighting.
Wright and his paddling partner Alan Weston – both aged 54 – did not know this when they went out on the water on Saturday afternoon.
Shortly after they set off near Sunny Cove station, Wright’s surfski was attacked by what was estimated to be a four-metre-long shark. He escaped unscathed.
The attack took place about 100m from where Fish Hoek resident Tyna Webb, 77, was attacked in November last year.
