Great White Shark Attacks Kayakers Off Mass. Coast

Two kayakers were attacked by a great white shark off the coast of Plymouth Wednesday and lived to tell the tale.

WCVB reported the women were in separate kayaks off White Horse Beach when the shark chomped on one of the kayaks. Both of the kayaks flipped over. The women started screaming and an onlooker called for help. The Plymouth Harbormaster dispatched a boat and the women were pulled to safety. The shark swam away.

The women were identified as Ida Parker and Kristin Orr.

“We were just talking and paddling,” Parker told WHDH. “I look over to talk to her and (the shark) came completely out of the water and got the bottom of the boat and flipped her over and knocked my kayak completely over.

“The scariest part was sitting in the water thinking he was waiting, wondering where he was.”

NECN reported that a few hours before the attack, a witness reported seeing a great white shark attack a seal in the same area.

Last week, authorities spotted a great white shark off the coast of Duxbury, a few miles north of Plymouth.

The last great white shark attack on a human in Massachusetts was In 2012, when a great white bit a man on the leg off the coast of Truro. The man survived.

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