] "My first thought was, that's a really big dolphin. But
] then I noticed it was swimming side to side rather than
] up and down," he said.

An article so California it hurts. "I thought I was dust".
Surfers staying out even after the attack. "That's the heaviest thing I've seen". Reasonable explainations that "the shark felt threatened".

Surfer goes toe-to-toe with shark / 'I thought I was dust,' he says of 5-minute ordeal off Bodega Bay