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Death traps of the sea
I was just inches from the monsters mouth
California lifeguard Casimir Polaski was paddling w
ith his surfboard in the Pacific
Ocean off San Luis Obispo when a shark attacked him
.
He says: I
had swum
about 13 miles and I was about a mile and a half o
ut when
suddenly something
came straight up out of the wate
r, knocking me
off
my
surfboard and into the air.
I didnt know it was a shark until I surfaced a
gain. Then I saw this big fish
swimming around with my surfboard in its mouth.
I could see its long grey dorsal fin and I thou
ght, Oh, my God, its a Great
White Shark. The next thought was,
Nobody gets this close to
a Great White
and
lives to tell
the tale.
You just dont know what youre going to do
in a situation like mine
. I saw the
shark coming towards me with my surfboard in its ja
ws. I grabbed the tail of the
surfboard and climbed back on it. I dont know why.
Then I
was afraid
that if the
shark let go of the board hed
go for
me.
I
got on my knees
on the tail of the board, trying
to keep my balance
because
all the time he was shaking the board trying
to get me off
it.
I was starting to fall back in the water wher
e Id
be easy meat for
him so I
moved up to the centre of the board where I could h
old on to the rail. But I
slipped back two or three inches. And
thats when I whacked him
on the nose. I
just
open-handed slapped
him on the nose.
It was more an automatic reaction than a
deliberate
slap. It was like something
was taking over my body.
I was just six inches away from his teeth, but
it was the eyes I remember most
.
It seemed as though he wasnt looking at anything w
hen he was looking
at
me.
Anyway, I just
went for
him and
whacked
him and about two or three
seconds after I hit him he went.
For a minute I really thought Id had it I mi
ght have seen my life pass in front
of me a little bit and after he went I
started paddling
back to the beach. But I
was waiting for him to come back
again.
They were the worst moments. Anyway, he wasnt
coming back, and I
managed to get
to the beach. I stood up and looked at my hands and
feet
practically counted my fingers and toes
to make sure
everything was
intact
. I
couldnt believe I
got away
without a scratch.
When I recovered my surfboard later, it had big
teeth marks in it. A biologist,
who
investigated
, said the bite was probably from a Great White abo
ut
18 feet
long.
I
had nightmares
that night, but the next day I
was back
in the ocean.
I love it. Even before the attack
Id reckoned
it was silly to worry about sharks
because attacks are so rare. I still feel that.
2
Exercise 1
Answer the questions:
1. What was he doing when the shark attacked him?
2. How far had he swum?
3. How far was he from the shore?
4. When did he realize it was a shark?
5. What did he do when it came towards him?
6. When did he hit the shark on the nose?
7. What did he do after he went?
8. Why did he check his hands and feet?
9. What did he see when he recovered the surfboard?
10. How long was the shark?
Exercise 2
Find words which mean:
hit (two words)
to come from under the water
still in one piece
bad dreams
mouth
Exercise 3
Read the text of Pulaskis encounter with a shark.
Make a list of the verbs on the
left-hand side of the paper (It should be a list of
verbs concerned with single
actions in the past simple). We will reconstruct th
e story from them.
Exercise 4
While he was paddling in the Pacific Ocean, a shark
attacked him.
Make up more sentences like that about Polaski, usi
ng your verb list.