Maui pro surfer Dusty Payne was competing in the Rip Curl Pro Search Tuesday when something caught his attention as he rode this wave at Ocean Beach.
Payne paddled to shore quickly with five minutes still left in his heat.
"I don’t know I was just sitting there and I was waiting for a wave and I’ve seen dolphins before and it wasn’t a dolphin. It was the biggest fin I’ve ever seen in my life coming straight at me and just the waves are terrible so I wasn’t going to stay out there and get bit by a shark,” said Payne.
Two surfers competing in the same heat with Payne stayed in the water.
On Saturday a surfer survived a shark attack in Monterey County which is about a hundred miles south of San Francisco.
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