A surfer named Jens Heller experienced a frightening encounter with a shark in Montara, California, when the shark bit his board shortly after he entered the water. Heller described the moment he felt a force knock him off his board and saw the shark, estimated to be about 10 feet long, grabbing onto his surfboard. This near-miss prompted Heller to consider his damaged board as iconic, deciding not to repair it and instead display it as a reminder of the incident.
I looked back and then saw this big mouth grabbing onto my board, and then it bit I guess, like here, and also on this side you can see the mouth here.
I just remember being in the water, looking back, seeing this black eye and the teeth of the shark, and then I just tried to grab my board as fast as possible and come back in.
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