On Saturday August 8 around 1 PM, he was swimming patrol near the buoys with other lifeguards when a great white shark grabbed his rescue torpedo and dragged him six feet below the surface. He surfaced uninjured, got back to the beach, screamed at everyone to get out of the water and closed the beach for about an hour. The encounter came days after more than eight great white sharks were filmed on video near Scarborough beaches in a 48-hour window, biologists now believe more than a dozen juveniles between six and twelve feet are lingering in the area.