A 46 year-old California man refuses to apologize for savagely punching a shark that was simply trying to feed itself during an encounter in the waters off of Del Mar on Sunday, NBC News reports.
A friend of the unidentified man who was present told NBC the man “punched it in the face, he punched it in the nose. I do know he had a gash on his hand from a shark’s tooth.” The man was taken to the hospital with bites to his left hand, left arm, and torso. It’s unclear what drove the man to interfere with and try to disrupt the shark’s natural feeding behaviors in its habitat.