Bobby Gumm was surfing with friends when, according to witnesses, he was thrown 10 feet into the air by the marauding shark, which witnesses said was a Great White shark between 15 and 20 feet long.
Doug Niblack was trying to catch another wave before going to work, when his longboard hit something hard as rock off the Oregon Coast and he suddenly found himself standing on the back of a thrashing great white shark.