'Man-eating' shark rammed my boat, says Cornish fisherman

An oceanic white-tip shark was spotted in St. Ives North Cornwall, this is highly unique because these sharks usually inhabits in warmer and deeper waters. A Cornwall fisherman spotted the shark when he was fishing, he was fascinated by this creature so he stood op in his 16 ft (5 metre) boat to take a good look at it and was watching over the side of the boat, but then the shark rammed his boat. The fisherman is happy that he was in a big boat and not a kayak otherwise the shark would have taken a bite of his legs. When the man got to shore another boat on that same place also spotted the oceanic white-tip shark, they were a 100 % certain that it was a white-tip shark. Richard peirce ( chairman of The Shark Trust) says that it is always exciting to get sighting reports of what might be new species in our waters. A lot of people and the spokesman of St Ives think that these people are blowing it all out of proportion.

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I think this is a very interesting topic. These stories always fascinate me, because I have a little phobia for sharks, I am really scared of them but that is also why I find them fascinating. I also have to dive with sharks one day, just because I have to! I don’t know if I should believe the fisherman because these kind of things happen a lot, people think they see something and blow it way out of proportion. I understand that the spokesman of St Ives is being careful about this subject. I do believe that they should find out if it’s true or not. It could be true, the other day I saw on Dutch television that they founded a killer whale in the ‘Waddenzee’ and those animals are really dangerous, so they should check the water if this shark really lives there.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/13/cornwall-fisherman-rammed-by-shark