{"id":73614,"date":"2025-08-16T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73614\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T07:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:44:15","slug":"great-white-fright-n-s-man-escapes-unscathed-after-using-paddle-to-repel-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73614\/","title":{"rendered":"Great white fright: N.S. man escapes unscathed after using paddle to repel shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A standup paddle boarder in <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/nova-scotia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nova Scotia<\/a> escaped without injury, but his board was not as lucky, after an encounter with a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/great-white-shark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">great white shark<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755073388_375_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kent Walsh went out for a paddle on Tuesday evening in the ocean off Cherry Hill Beach on the South Shore when the serene atmosphere took a sudden turn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kind of initially assumed that I hit something,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A shark swam up and grabbed a hold of his board, causing him to fall into the water. He remembers looking up to see the shark flailing, half out of the water, struggling to unlatch its jaws from the board.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755073389_716_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like eye-level with its eye, cause I was in the water\u2026 Its big, deep, unblinking eye, just kind of staring back. And then like I said because of the floatation of the board, its whole dorsal fin was out of the water \u2014 everything was just like all right there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Walsh said he began hitting the shark on the head with his paddle and it eventually detached from the board, allowing him to get back to shore unscathed.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11335614\/pete-hoekstra-donald-trump-tariffs-canada-retaliation-cusma\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755330254_216_mark-carney-donald-trump-tariffs_133719.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanada\u2019s counter-tariffs \u2018pulled the rug out from\u2019 CUSMA, U.S. envoy says\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11334933\/alberta-man-border-turo-fentanyl-nightmare\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755330255_306_fentany-rental-turo-on-iphone_1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAlberta man\u2019s quick trip across Canada-U.S. border becomes fentanyl nightmare\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marine veterinarian Chris Harvey-Clark analyzed the bite mark and confirmed the shark was a great white, roughly three metres long, likely a juvenile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sea is not teaming with sharks that are dying to eat you. Most of these I think are accidents and the surfboard is a classic accident: that\u2019s a come-from-below, look at a profile, \u2018oh that looks good, that looks kind of seal-like or dolphin-like.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harvey-Clark noted that more and more juvenile sharks are being seen in the maritime waters as the seal population booms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t stop using the sea, but exercise situational awareness when you\u2019re out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014with files from Global News\u2019 Ella MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A standup paddle boarder in Nova Scotia escaped without injury,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,11592,44,907,4777],"class_list":["post-73614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-great-white-shark","tag-news","tag-nova-scotia","tag-shark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}