A city diver became locked in deadly combat with a 6’2” shark while working on a water main at the Second Narrows in Burrard Inlet. John Bruce, a 37-year-old former British navy diver in the First World War, said the shark began circling him while 30 metres below the surface and he was forced to fend it off with a large iron bar he had with him. He didn’t dare signal colleagues to pull him up due to fears the shaker would go for his legs.
The battle lasted nearly 15 minutes before Bruce overcame his opponent, whose carcass he then attached to a line and had hauled up at the same time he surfaced to the no doubt considerable surprise of his co-workers.
