#Arch rock accident crack
A jagged crack runs perpendicular to the line of tooth marks. The damage measures 20 by 15 inches and lies entirely below the waterline approximately beneath the seat. The group returned to the beach without further difficulty.īack on dry land, the party reported the incident to Sonoma State Beaches rangers and inspected the boat. They quickly improvised a rescue, with Rosemary riding belly down and head aft on the front of Rick's Scupper-"the only boat that could take me"-and the other paddlers towing the punctured boat. When she capsized again, her friends saw the bite marks on her hull and realized that her boat was tippy and unmanageable because it was taking on water. She re-entered a second time and attempted to head toward shore, but had difficulty controlling the boat. Rosemary hopped back on her kayak, but immediately capsized. Rick states that the shark's mouth encompassed almost the whole width of the Frenzy. She remained calm, believing that she had merely struck a rock! Her approaching companions were less than calm, having seen the "monster" that hit her boat. Wearing a wetsuit but no life vest, she had to swim in one direction to retrieve her paddle, then back the other way to get to her boat. Rosemary landed in the water, and briefly felt something solid underfoot. Rick saw a shark perhaps 16 feet long knock the boat entirely out of the water, and he believes Rosemary flew 12 to 14 feet into the air.
Rosemary felt a powerful jolt and flew off the top of her boat. Rick and the others soon followed at some distance. Her friend Rick Larson, on his second kayak trip ever, was on a Scupper, and one of the others paddled a Kiwi, which is also a very short kayak.Īs the four paddlers approached Arched Rock, Rosemary veered off from the group and headed around the rock. Rosemary was paddling a borrowed blue Frenzy, which is a plastic sit-on-top boat just nine feet long. On Sunday October 10, she and three companions set off from Goat Rock Beach south of Jenner for the short paddle southward to Arched Rock (another Arch Rock lies north of Jenner). Rosemary Johnson is a lifelong ocean sports enthusiast now living in Sonoma County. For the second year in a row, autumn in Northern California was marked by a Great White Shark attack on a coastal kayaker. This time we can joke about it - nobody got hurt.
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