Kayaker recounts insane caught-on-camera close encounter with great white shark

A pair of California kayakers had a scary, caught-on-video run-in with a massive great white shark that got too close for comfort last week while they were fishing off the coast of San Francisco. The video shows the shark’s dorsal fin poking out of the water behind John-Patrick Thomas’ kayak while the two were fishing for link cod and halibut in Half Moon Bay on Aug. 6 — their first time out on the water. “It’s disconcerting because it’s a new experience for me, not so much that the shark...