Surfer surfs on the back of a shark off the Oregon coast

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Surfer Doug Niblack was trying to catcha wave early in the morning, when his surfboard hit something hard in the water and he suddenly found himself standing on the back of a great white shark.

Looking down, he could see a dorsal fin in front of his feet as he stood on what he described as 10 feet of back as wide as his surfboard and as black as his own Neoprene wetsuit. A tail thrashed back and forth and the water churned around him like a depth charge went off.