Surfer says shark attack felt 'like being hit by a car' as board bitten in half: reports

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• "It was like being hit by a car," Tommy Civik told Bay City News, according to SFGate of the incident in Mendocino County, north of San Francisco.
• "All of a sudden, I was shot out of the water."South Coast Fire Protection District Chief Jason Warner told SFGate that his team responded to a beach in Gualala, California, before 9 a. m.
• on Tuesday, and bystanders told him that a "big" shark "hit the surfer and the surfboard, threw the surfer up in the air a bit, and broke the board in half." He said it "latched on to half of the board and [was] kind of thrashing it around." SWIMMER VANISHES AFTER POSSIBLE SHARK ENCOUNTER OFF CALIFORNIA COAST DURING GROUP OUTING A surfer was bitten by a shark that broke his board in Northern California this week, in the state's first shark incident of the year.
• (South Coast Fire Protection District) Civik told the Los Angeles Times that he never saw the shark."My board snapped in half on impact," he said.
• "My friend watching said that I flew in the air.