Caught on video: Woman on paddleboard has close encounter with hammerhead shark
A Florida woman had a close encounter with a hammerhead shark while in the middle of a long-distance paddleboard trip for charity.
Watch video of the encounter above.
맥스카지노It definitely kind of gives you a little bit of like, 맥스카지노Oh, my gosh. I can맥스카지노t believe that happened to me,맥스카지노맥스카지노 Malea Tribble said.
Tribble was part of a group paddleboarding from the Bahamas to the Lake Worth Pier during an event called the Crossing for Cystic Fibrosis, bringing awareness to the disease and raising money for research.
She said they were about halfway through the trip when another guest joined their group. 맥스카지노I was just kind of doing my thing, and I felt a little bit of a tap on my board, but I thought it was picking up seaweed,맥스카지노 Tribble said. 맥스카지노That happens. You can drag seaweed on your fin.맥스카지노
But in this case, her paddleboard wasn맥스카지노t the only fin in the water. The other fin belonged to a hammerhead shark that was following her.
Video recorded by someone in the accompanying safety boat shows the shark맥스카지노s fin right near Tribble맥스카지노s board.
맥스카지노I saw my husband맥스카지노s face drop, and I saw him tell the captain to shut off the engine and he then guided me to the boat,맥스카지노 Tribble said. 맥스카지노As soon as he did that, I knew it was a shark.맥스카지노
Tribble맥스카지노s husband, Ricky, guided her back to the boat.
맥스카지노It맥스카지노s one of those things that you have to trust the people that you맥스카지노re around. And I just knew to listen,맥스카지노 Tribble said. 맥스카지노My husband jokes that it was the first time that I맥스카지노ve ever listened to him in my life.맥스카지노
The video shows Tribble remaining calm the entire time.
She said she was just focusing on maintaining her balance, getting to the boat and away from the shark. 맥스카지노I saw it once I sat down, because it did go back underneath the board,맥스카지노 Tribble said. 맥스카지노Oddly enough, it actually looked at me. I swear I saw his eye stare right at me.맥스카지노
Tribble said she believes the shark was just curious about who she was and why she was in the middle of the ocean. She pointed out that the shark had a number of opportunities to knock her off her board but never did.
Once she was in the boat, Tribble helped guide the other paddleboarder to safety. They took about a 10-minute break to decide what to do next. And then Tribble got right back on her board and finished the trip to Lake Worth.
맥스카지노Just like falling in. You fall in, you get back up,맥스카지노 she said. 맥스카지노You don맥스카지노t sit there and sulk about falling in. You have to keep moving. It맥스카지노s the best way to kind of move forward.맥스카지노
Tribble said she will absolutely take place in next year맥스카지노s Crossing for Cystic Fibrosis.
She created a for people to help her cause in fighting cystic fibrosis.