Shark watch: California surfer recalls 'black silhouette' before great white attack, then 'crunching'

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A California man shared his dramatic brush with death and a word of advice to surfers after he was attacked by a great white shark in 2022 – and lived to tell the tale.

Michael "Jared" Trainor told Fox News Digital he was driving out to a rugged beach in Ferndale, California, when it "occurred" to him that it was the middle of Sharktober, the span of September through December when sharks are more present along the coastline.

"It's crazy to me that this was a couple of years ago already...