San Onofre State Beach, CA – A Dana Point surfer says he was a bit nervous about two great white sharks circling his paddleboard off the San Onofre coast this week. But Chuck Patterson, 41, captured one of the sharks on video, dipping a camera beneath the surface with a 10-foot pole as they swam around the board he was standing on.”I’ve been wanting to do that forever,” Patterson said Thursday. He’d seen sharks in the same area the day before, he said, thinking they might be mako sharks. So he returned on Tuesday with his camera. “Within five minutes, I was pleasantly surprised to see a pretty big, 9-foot great white,” he said. “I was on a 12-foot board. He was just a couple of feet shy of that.” Then, he said, came the scariest moment. “I startled it, it startled me,” Patterson said. “It slammed its tail fin on my board and took off. I had a little moment of clarity — if it was a good idea to be out there.” The shark circled him once more, then swam away, he said. “It seemed like a minute later, another shark came that was smaller,” he said. “That one hung out for 10 or 12 minutes. That was like a 7 or 8 foot great white. That was the great white that was on the video.” Patterson felt some initial fear, but he said he nearly forgot it as he concentrated on capturing the video.

I’d probably be concentrating on not releasing my bowels if I had a 9ft great white looking to make a meal out of me. There are two things in life that you probably don’t want to fuck with – Chuck Norris and sharks.