great white shark
"I did what anyone would have done," he said. "The shark was latched onto her leg. I just jumped into the water."
Officials praised heroic fellow surfers who fought the shark and tried to save the victim.
He was pronounced dead at the scene on a beach in Santa Cruz County.
Singer and guitarist Paul Stanley told The Associated Press. “Since we’re going to be in Australia, it gives a whole new meaning to doing a concert down under.”
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Reeling in a striped bass turned scary and spectacular in Cape Cod Bay over the weekend.
"We were amazed how big it was," the captain said after the shark took a too-close-for-comfort bite.
Some consider Deep Blue to be one of the biggest great white sharks ever filmed.
Officials aren't revealing the cause of death of the 9-foot juvenile male that washed up on Monterey Bay beach.
It's the first time researchers have seen Hilton in the Gulf of Mexico.
To the disappointment of some viewers, it was a CGI shark he raced -- not a real one.