I saw his eye look at me and then he just disappeared. And so I thought, 'Well, I'll just start paddling and he'll think that I'm moving and I'm alive and I'm not food and he'll probably leave me alone.

Then I felt something and (I) looked down and this shark brushed my kayak.

As I said, the head on this thing was unreal.

And I start waving at them, please come here, this is not a good thing what I'm in here.

I had a pretty good shot of adrenaline working at that time, and all I wanted to do was to get on the boat and get somewhere where I was on a boat bigger than what the shark was.

Everyone has secret ambitions; mine was to be a rock singer. I thought I could sing. But when you sing in the shower, or with headphones, what sounds good to you doesn't always sound so great to others. My parents demanded I close all our windows when I acted out my rock dreams.