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New video stunt: surfer goes waterskiing behind shark

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 20 January, 2009 : - - As stunts go, baiting a Great White Shark to take you for a ride by towing your surfboard is an adrenalin rush unlikely to be matched again.  A video purporting to show just this has swept around the world via email in the last few days. But there's just one small problem - does the footage show a foolhardy daredevil or is it a hoax?

Photographer Kem McNair claims he captured the hair-raising moment on home video from the shore at Florida's New Smyrna beach. He said the stunt - dubbed 'shark-riding' - has become the latest, and most dangerous, extreme sports craze in more than a decade. In his video, a 25-year-old male surfer is filmed being dragged along by a fishing line after baiting a shark with chunks of bloodied steak.

Clutching a fishing rod with meat on the hook, the clip begins with the surfer jumping off a pier into the sea. He casts his bait into the water and watches as a 4ft dorsal fin appears on the horizon and heads straight for the line. After chomping on the bait the shark swims off with the surfer being dragged behind on his board, clutching the fishing line with both hands like a water-skier.

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