Great White Shark jumps into boat..(A great way to kick off Shark Week!)
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 11:42PM Imagine the flabbergasted look upon Dorien Schroder's face when an estimated 9ft, one-thousand pound Great White Shark leaped into her research vessel early Wednesday morning, near Seal Island in South Africa. Schroder watched the Great White leap over a research intern, and into her vessel while her and her team were chumming sharks up close to the boat for a study they were doing on shark populations in the area.
Dorien Schroder, team leader, described to the Cape Times what happened next: "Next thing I know I hear a splash, and see a white shark breach out of the water from [the] side of the boat hovering, literally, over the crew member who was chumming on the port side."
The shark was kept alive for almost an hour with the use of a raw water hose, while a crane was dispatched to the location to help raise the shark off the vessel and release it back into the water, where it will now continue to terrorize the local seal population.