A Sunshine Coast man who had a lucky escape after a shark bit off the back of his kayak in Moreton Bay has spoken about how he tried to remain calm during the stressful situation.
Gavin Kleidon was about 30 minutes from the end of a leisurely Sunday afternoon kayak from Cleveland to Scarborough, off Brisbane, when he was thrown off his craft into the shark-infested waters of Moreton Bay.
“It took me by surprise because generally if you fall off, you know if you’ve caught your paddle or you’ve fallen off for some reason, and I hadn’t done any of that,” he said.
The Maroochydore man said he never saw the shark, but once he resurfaced he saw a “fair-sized swirl beneath the boat” and knew immediately what had happened.
“I saw the back of my boat floating away and I knew pretty quickly what it was,” he said.
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