Let me get this straight:
Dude is surfing - paddling around, really.
Sharkey comes up, clamps down on his hip (top row) and the board (bottom row) - essentially making an open-face surfer sandwich.
Sharkey then pulls world's luckiest man underwater, while he and board are sandwiched in Sharkey's jaws. Pulls guy and board pretty far under, from what I'm reading in the story.
Moments later, Sharkey realizes this is not the real deal seal meal he was hoping for, and spits out the surferkabob like the giant fish with Jonah, and swims off to parts unknown.
Surferboy, still gripping board (with hip mashed into top deck, and hands still on the nose, leash still on his ankle) goes all Red October and blasts up through the surface, into the air and lands amongst his awestruck buddies.
He is then taken to the hospital, bandaged up and (I'm presuming this part) is likely back out today, because as the story says, "surf's up, brah...."
Do I have this right?
WOW.
That is clean livin', my friends.
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Ken