Surfer says shark attack felt 'like being hit by a car' as board bitten in half: reports

A surfer was bitten by a shark that broke his board in Northern California this week, in the state's first shark incident of the year.

"It was like being hit by a car," Tommy Civik told Bay City News, according to SFGate of the incident in Mendocino County, north of San Francisco. "All of a sudden, I was shot out of the water."

South Coast Fire Protection District Chief Jason Warner told SFGate that his team responded to a beach in Gualala, California, before 9 a.m. on Tuesday, and...