“It was weird. I was sitting out there thinking, ‘Wow, this feels shark-y to me,’” Megan Halavais, 20, said Thursday. “It was straight out of ‘Jaws.’”

“A 16-foot shark is a big shark. It’s not just 16 feet in length. It’s big. I couldn’t fit my arms around its tail. Its fin, its main dorsal fin, was like taller than me,” Halavais recounted for reporters at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital as she sat in a wheelchair, her bandaged leg extended in front of her.

The attacked happened on Wednesday and by Thursday Megan was already in good spirits, with a shark bite that streched from her thigh to her calf. She is listed in good condition. Police believe the shark was probably a great white, possibly the same shark in one or more attacks in recent years, the beach is now closed and surfers in nearby locations have been warned.

Wow, I thought that shark caught in New Zealand was big & now I hear about a girl who escapes being eaten by an even bigger one.