Just been watching an unbelievable Twitter stream from @skabenga – an eyewitness account of a shark attack at Fish Hoek, a beach town near Cape Town.
Gripping, frightening, visceral stuff. Here’s a snapshot:
Holy shit, we just saw a GIGANTIC shark eat what looked like a person right in front of our house in fishhoek. Unbelievable.
skabenga Jan 12 1:40 pm
Emergency services just arrived. It must have been a person. The shark breached it’s head out the water no remains http://yfrog.com/1dronnpj
skabenga Jan 12 1:44 pm
We are dumbstruck, that was so surreal. That shark was HUGE. Like dinosaur huge. #sharkattack #fishhoek
skabenga Jan 12 1:47 pm
Helicopters are out and looking for any trace of the remains. Shark headed off Clovelly way #fishoek #sharkattack
skabenga Jan 12 2:06 pm
Emergency boats also out crisscrossing the area. We have seen sharks in the bay before but that one was enormous. #fishoek #sharkattack
skabenga Jan 12 2:11 pm
@igitur At first it could have been a seal pup but then the object it pulled under had some color visible before it disappeared
skabenga Jan 12 2:19 pm
RT: @joyanne: spoke to allan from whale watchers-he said they’ve found half a body and the person was swimming off the catwalk
skabenga Jan 12 2:41 pm
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IOL has confirmed the victim’s identity: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20100112182544339C817746
eish – that is too hectic.nightmare stuff!
[...] Witness tweets shark attack as it happens [...]
[...] fbShare = {url: 'http://valleywatch.co.za/shark-attack-at-fish-hoek-beach/',size:'large'}Witness Tweets shark-attack as it happens. There was a shark attack at Fish Hoek beach on Tuesday afternoon, the National Sea Rescue [...]
the shark is racist and xenophobic – why the poor zimabawaian again.
nooit bru… there goes the theory that sharks don’t devour humans…
I don’t think shark attacks are that common, maybe you just thought you saw it.
you are more likely to get hit by lightning than attacked by a shark.