{"id":2991,"date":"2008-07-27T07:56:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T14:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2008-07-27T08:08:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T15:08:11","slug":"bluewater-jons-shark-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2991","title":{"rendered":"Bluewater Jon&#8217;s Shark Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> resident and &#8220;world famous kayak fisherman&#8221; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluewaterjon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bluewater Jon Schwartz<\/a><\/strong>, 39, and his wife <strong>Veronica<\/strong> were kayaking in Kona, Hawaii when a 9-foot-long tiger shark pulled up along side them, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi%3Ff%3D\/c\/a\/2008\/07\/27\/SPUM11TTVU.DTL&amp;cid=1230510301&amp;ei=moOMSKSqL4P0-gHp6YWcBQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNGRkg3ANbRBr7nL-t-_CuJVxeCGHw\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It surfaced next to us like a submarine,&#8221; said Jon Schwartz. &#8220;It was like 9, 10 feet long, directly perpendicular to us, about 12 feet away, a tiger shark, about 200 pounds. It was staring at us, right next to us. Our worst fear was right in front of us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Luckily, Schwartz was armed with a device called a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharkshield.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shark Shield.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the chaos of the moment, Schwartz said he remembers flipping a switch to activate the Shark Shield. They watched as the shark suddenly veered off just a few feet from them.<br \/>\n&#8220;It was as if the shark hit a force field,&#8221; Schwartz said. . . . The pair said they went crazy with relief, shouting and hooting. &#8220;It was unbelievable,&#8221; Veronica said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More fish tales? Click the link and you decide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi%3Ff%3D\/c\/a\/2008\/07\/27\/SPUM11TTVU.DTL&amp;cid=1230510301&amp;ei=moOMSKSqL4P0-gHp6YWcBQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNGRkg3ANbRBr7nL-t-_CuJVxeCGHw\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan resident and &#8220;world famous kayak fisherman&#8221; Bluewater Jon Schwartz, 39, and his wife Veronica were kayaking in Kona, Hawaii when a 9-foot-long tiger shark pulled up along side them, according to a story in the San Francisco Chronicle. &#8220;It surfaced next to us like a submarine,&#8221; said Jon Schwartz. &#8220;It was like 9, 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}