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‘It was going to eat her’: Aussie teen survives shark scare

By George Day · On October 25, 2017

An Australian teenager has survived a terrifying encounter with a great white shark, with her harrowing screams alerting her father who was certain it was about to “eat her”.

Sarah Williams, 15, was fishing for squid from a kayak off the South Australian coast near Normanville on Sunday (Oct 23) when the shark struck.

Her rattled father Chris, in a small dinghy nearby with his son and another daughter, said she was thrown in the air and landed in the water.

“This shark has just rolled and all I saw was the dark side and the white belly and just huge fins and just white water everywhere,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday. Read more. 

 

 

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