She Was Kayaking, Then a 'Big Bang'

By Kate Seamons

October 23, 2017

 It was "everything you picture in the Jaws movie," minus the bloody death. A 15-year-old Australian teen relates her harrowing encounter with what's believed to have been a great white shark on Sunday. 

ABC reports Sarah Williams was fishing for squid in a kayak off the Normanville area of South Australia when a shark surfaced from underneath her kayak, tossing her into the air and out of the boat. Dad Chris Williams describes it to 9News as a "big bang," with something "very solid" hitting her kayak. 

He was about 100 feet away in a small aluminum boat with his son; his wife and her friend were in a kayak about three times that distance away. "We could see the shark still there and having a go at her," says Williams

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