Michael Tropiano, Panic (SINGLE SHOT 2024)

The whites of my eyes were all that was visible as I found myself trapped inside an oceanic feeding frenzy. In a panicked last ditch effort to survive the baitfish took shelter on us, but it did little to stop the onslaught of huge predators that attacked the fleeing sardines at speeds of up to 100 kilometres per hour. I was lucky. When I finally manged to escape I had only suffered a few minor cuts and bruises. I was back to back with my friend Jordan who at one stage copped an incidental, but very solid hit to the head from a huge Dorado. It hit him with such power it knocked one of his molars clean out of his jaw.

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