Great White Shark Stalks Kayaker

By Tim Caputo, WHDH News

July 9, 2012 Updated Jul 9, 2012 at 1:17 PM PDT

Nauset beach in Massachusetts was evacuated Saturday afternoon when a 12 to 14-foot shark was spotted only 100 feet out.

A great white's dorsal fin cut through the top of the water as it cruised the shoreline. “All of a sudden, we saw this person in a kayak, and we saw a fin 10 feet from it,” said Lizzy Jenkins.

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Everyone else in the water immediately ran onto the beach.

“We started swimming and people on the shore started waiving us in,” said Christina Proulx.

They all watched as a kayaker was seemingly stalked by the shark.

“There were hundreds of people on the beach, and they were all at the edge, yelling paddle paddle, paddle!” said Dave Alexander.

“Everyone was screaming, ‘shark,’”said Haley O’Brien.

Then the guy noticed and everyone started screaming shark, and he started paddling coming towards the shore.

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