[Jake]

If I saw something like that come up at me, I would probably give up all watersports.

Seriously, if you've spend any considerable amount of time out on (or underneath) the water, you will have an encounter with some type of marine life that will cause you some pain or at least an adrenaline rush. I've been hit by those diving ducks (whatever you call them) when they came up out of the water in front of me. I've had an osprey drop a mullet he caught and almost hit me. I've had seagulls and other birds fly between my lines as well as them dumping on my kite. I've hit two sharks with my board in shallow water. They got even with me, though. I was bit by a small blacktip in the knee once when wade fishing (not really enough for it to draw much blood).

It would be interesting to see how many have had encounters of this sort.