Kauai, Hawaii local surfer Gav Klein, 28, saw his board attacked by a shark on Saturday at a beach west of the island, he posted on social media and several news sites reported.

The attack reportedly took place in the same spot where skilled adaptive surfer Mike Coots was attacked when he lost part of his leg at the age of 18.

Klein told BeachGrit that there were three people surfing, him, his uncle and a young boy. He sat in the lineup waiting for a wave and looked back to see if his relative had managed to catch the wave he had ridden.

At that moment he feels the tip of his board hit a rock, he says. “A rock?” he thinks. “I’m on a reef and there are rocks,” he tries to convince himself, and then he asks himself: “But I’m in deep water, six feet away.” He looks up and sees a huge grey head.

“With no eyes and moving super fast. Everything happening so fast. He bit the nose of my board. I let go of the board and then I floated over his head as he dug in,” Klein said.

Then he grabbed the board, the shark let go and got on, with no feet or hands in the water, and started yelling at the grom and his uncle to get out of the water.

Once on the board, he looked at the tip, saw the bite and confirmed it was a shark. He said he froze for a moment thinking the shark would come back to finish what it had started but managed to get out of the water unharmed.

A giant turtle rested on the sand and her conclusion is that the shark was chasing her.

Although he did not suffer from post-traumatic stress, the local says he did have some nightmares involving sharks.

After posting the bite on social media, the official Channel Islands account sent him a message saying they would send him a replacement board.

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