AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Surfer fights off 12-foot tiger shark with his fists off Oahu's South Shore
A 24-year-old surfer punched and kicked a charging tiger shark until it retreated at a popular Hawaii surf spot, then walked away with little more than a broken board and scraped-up legs. Albert Westpfal was paddling over a reef at China Walls, a well-known break on Oahu's South Shore, on Tuesday afternoon when a tiger […] The post Surfer fights off 12-foot tiger shark with his fists off Oahu's South Shore appeared first on American Almanac .
A 24-year-old surfer punched and kicked a charging tiger shark until it retreated at a popular Hawaii surf spot, then walked away with little more than a broken board and scraped-up legs. Albert Westpfal was paddling over a reef at China Walls, a well-known break on Oahu's South Shore, on Tuesday afternoon when a tiger shark estimated at 12 feet clamped down on the tail of his surfboard. The shark bit clean through the fiberglass, knocked Westpfal off the board, and sent him into the open ocean, then turned and charged him a second time. Westpfal fought back. He kicked the shark in the head and punched its nose until the animal thrashed and finally backed off. He made it out of the water with abrasions on his leg from the shark's rough…Open