MOSSEL BAY NEWS FLASH - A 3m great white shark gave local surfing legend Llewellyn 'Lu' Whittaker the fright of his life at Outerpool, at Mossel Bay's Point.
The SA junior surfing team coach and long-time Mossel Bay resident says he has been surfing in Mossel Bay since the age of 10, and at The Point since he was 12; he has surfed in Tergniet, Glentana and all the 'sharkie spots', but never in his wildest dreams expected to have such a close encounter 'on his own doorstep'.
It happened on Sunday, 20 May, when the swell was big and the sea quite stormy.
Lu had taken six kids out for training and they were waiting for the tide to change so they could go surf 'dingdang'.
He went out by himself and after about 40 minutes of waiting right at the back of the waves, he saw something coming towards him from the corner of his eye.
"A shark was swimming towards me, diagonally from my right hand side."
The shark was within a metre of him, so close that he was easily able to identify it as a great white. Instinctively, he pulled his feet up on his board. The shark backed off, creating a distance of about 5m...
- Mossel Bay Advertiser
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