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A California man shared his dramatic brush with death and a word of advice to surfers after he was attacked by a great white shark in 2022 – and lived to tell the tale.

Michael “Jared” Trainor told Fox News Digital he was driving out to a rugged beach in Ferndale, California, when it “occurred” to him that it was the middle of Sharktober, the span of September through December when sharks are more present along the coastline.

“It’s crazy to me that this was a couple of years ago already, but it was midday and I had been surfing this area for some time, and it’s pretty rugged and remote,” he recalled.

“And I had a little bit of unease just from thinking about the shark presence in the area,” Trainor added. “And I paddled out, and it was just an ominous day.”

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Trainor said he noticed a group of seals, which was “pretty regular,” as he paddled out to catch the next set of waves.

“I did have this weird and uncomfortable feeling,” he said. 

“As I went onto the board and started paddling, almost instantly, I was hit,” he said. “It appeared that it [the shark] came up and pushed my left leg up into the air and latch onto my right leg and board.”

“I was lucky that the board was pinned beneath the lower jaw,” he said.

Jared Trainor poses with a surfboard. He said he saw a “large black silhouette” when he encountered the great white shark. (Jared Trainor)

Trainor, who is now 33, said that prior to being bitten he saw a “large black silhouette” when he was submerged under the water.

“The last thing I remember was looking back at the beach and seeing where my dogs were and, when I came to, I opened my eyes underwater, and I could see the surface of the water, and I could just see this large black silhouette.”

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He said his first thought was that he had been attacked by an aggressive sea lion.

“I could just see this large black silhouette.”

Jared Trainor poses in front of a great white shark. He shared that he was grateful to be alive following the attack. (Jared Trainor)

Trainor said he “only felt a sensation on my knee.” 

“It felt like a dog was trying to get into my wetsuit,” he said. “And I managed to give it a few firm kicks.”

“I felt the crunching and I did see stars emanating off the silhouette,” he said.

After kicking the shark, later identified as a great white, the predator released him from its grasp.

After the shark disappeared, Trainor said he used his board to slowly travel back to shore.

“At that time, I wasn’t sure that my wetsuit had even been damaged, it kind of had felt like a large creature just came and jumped on on my leg and pulled me down,” he said. “I had no idea that I was lacerated to the extent that I was.”

Trainor and his family learned later that he had been attacked by a great white, estimated to be about 16 feet long and weighing more than 1,000 pounds. (Jared Trainor)

Trainor said no one was at the beach, but thankfully, there was a fellow surfer in the parking lot who observed the attack and ran toward the shore.

“I could see him running toward me, and I knew whatever had just happened to me was fairly serious,” he said. “And as I stood on my feet when I got to the sand, I noticed my whole leg was just basically flayed open, and I was shocked that I was still able to walk.”

“I was bleeding a lot, but it was not painful at the time,” he said.

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Trainor said the good Samaritan who met him on the beach grabbed his dog’s leash and tied it to his upper thigh to act like a tourniquet until first responders arrived to rush him to Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna, California.

Jared Trainor’s surfboard post shark attack. He shared that he knew it was a shark, and not a sea lion when he saw the teeth marks in his surfboard. (Jared Trainor)

Trainor said he asked the EMTs if it was a seal attack, and they pointed to his surfboard, which had a large shark bite mark in it.

“I was almost in tears because I was just so beside myself that I had just experienced my worst fear and kind of thought that it was a sea lion,” he said. 

Trainor’s injuries included six lacerations across his inner thigh, a tear in his MCL on his knee, and some bone penetration.

Jared Trainor wore a brace following his surgery after he was attacked by a great white shark in October 2022. (Jared Trainor )

Following his surgery, Trainor began the journey of physical therapy and eventually picked up a surfboard once again.

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“Physical therapy was a hurdle that I had to go through, but I ended up doing well in physical therapy, and I ended up getting into the water to surf about two months after that,” he said.

“It was important to me to kind of overcome whatever sort of PTSD that I was experiencing from the attack,” he said.

Jared Trainor’s leg with stitches after the shark attack in October 2022. (Jared Trainor)

Jared’s scar slowly healed after he had surgery. (Jared Trainor)

The surf lover now hits the waves with a group of friends.

“I still surf that same beach pretty frequently, but now there’s a group of guys, and we all communicate with each other when we’re going so that we can have a buddy in the water with us,” Trainor said.

Trainor said he is “grateful” to be alive and for the progress he has made since the attack.

“People have died from this thing, and I was pretty close to losing my own life,” he said. “I feel really grateful that I was able to bounce back from it.”

Artificial intelligence has been a big boon for San Francisco real estate. But not enough of one to make up for the broader struggle across the market.

The vacancy rate for San Francisco office space reached a fresh record of 34.5% in the second quarter, according to a report Monday from commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield. That’s up from 33.9% in the first quarter, 28.1% in the same period a year ago and 5% before the pandemic.

Meanwhile, the average asking rent dropped to $68.27 per square foot in the quarter, the lowest since late 2015, down from $72.90 a year earlier and a peak of $84.70 in 2020.

San Francisco is reeling from the twin challenges of bringing people back to the office after the Covid pandemic and a slowdown in the tech market that’s led to mass job cuts across the industry. Tech companies have laid off more than 530,000 employees since the start of 2022, according to the website Layoffs.fyi, with major downsizing at Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Tesla, Microsoft and Salesforce.

Softening the blow of late has been the soaring popularity of generative AI and the decision by fast-growing startups to open large offices in San Francisco.

OpenAI, the market leader with a private valuation that’s topped $80 billion, announced in October that it was leasing about 500,000 square feet of space in the Mission Bay neighborhood, the biggest office lease in the city since 2018. Robert Sammons, senior research director at Cushman & Wakefield, said OpenAI is continuing to look for more space in the city.

Also last year, OpenAI rival Anthropic subleased 230,000 square feet at Slack’s headquarters. And in May of this year, Scale AI signed a lease for a reported 170,000 to 180,000 square feet of space in Airbnb’s office building.

“San Francisco is certainly the center of AI, but AI is not going to save the San Francisco commercial real estate market,” Sammons said. “It will help.”

While richly capitalized AI startups are signing large leases for new space, the bigger trend is that tech companies, law offices and consulting firms are looking to reduce their footprint when existing leases come up, Sammons said, reflecting the widespread move to hybrid work.

In many cases, companies are looking to relocate to higher quality space in more desirable parts of the city, because prices have come down and employers need to be near restaurants and shops to get staffers to come back, Sammons added.

“The best quality trophy space continues to perform well, because tenants want to be in the best locations with the best amenities around them,” Sammons said.

Some of the city’s top employers, including Salesforce, Uber, Visa and Wells Fargo, have brought employees back to offices for part of the week. That’s helped in the financial district, where the vacancy rate is still 34.2% on the north side and 32.7% on the south side at the end of the quarter. In SoMa, which historically was a popular area for venture-backed startups, the vacancy rate is almost 50%.

SoMa is further away from mass transit options and has also been hurt by large retail departures. Vacant office space across San Francisco for the quarter totaled 29.6 million square feet, Cushman & Wakefield said.

The firm said in its report that there are positive signs in the market, with absorption poised to improve in the second half and office job numbers stabilizing following a steep drop-off. But Sammons said it looks like there’s more room for rents to fall and for vacancies to rise. Uncertainty surrounding the upcoming presidential election may be a factor delaying new leases, he said.

“Sometimes tenants postpone making decisions when there are major elections,” he said.

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The five priciest Denver-area home sales in June included a Highlands Ranch mansion purchased by the coach of the Denver Nuggets, a Cherry Hills Village mansion and three homes in Denver’s Cherry Creek, including two on the same block.

The top spot went to a home in the 400 block of Saint Paul St. in Denver. 460 Saint Paul LLC, a Colorado corporation formed on May 17, purchased the property from retired car dealer Jerry Glauser and his wife, Barbara, for $8.3 million.

The five-bedroom, eight-bathroom home designed by architect Michael Knorr sits on one-third acre in Cherry Creek. It features 12-foot ceilings, heated floors, a spiral staircase, an elevator, a domed skylight and a two-story gym.

The Glausers purchased the home in 2004 for $4.2 million, then bought the one next door for $850,000. They scraped the latter and turned to Paul Kobey, the original builder, to expand the house.

They decided to sell it and buy something smaller in Denver because they own homes in Aspen, Arizona, and Florence, Italy.

“We love Denver, but we only spend about a month here a year, and it doesn’t make sense to have a 12,000-square-foot house,” Glauser said in 2023. “We wish we could take it with us.”

The Glausers initially listed the property with Kentwood Real Estate DTC for $14 million in 2019 before removing the listing. Kentwood relisted it for $11 million in June 2020 before again removing the listing. Douglas Kerbs with LIV Sotheby’s International Realty then listed the home for $11 million in March 2022 before lowering the price to $10 million in March.

Glauser owned several Glauser Mercedes-Benz dealerships, including one in Westminster, before selling them and retiring.

Kerbs represented both the buyer and sellers.

According to MLS data, here are June’s next four most expensive home sales:

Home in the 10900 block of Skydance Drive, Highlands Ranch: $6.8 million

Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone, who led the team to an NBA championship in 2023, and his wife, Jocelyn, purchased the 8,875-square-foot mansion from Christian and Amy Stevens.

The six-bedroom, nine-bath home, with a five-car garage and an elevator, was built in 2022.

It features a gourmet kitchen, laundry room with a dog wash station, and a finished basement with a wet bar, temperature-controlled wine room and a home gym.

Outside, the home includes a private swimming pool, a pickleball court and an outdoor kitchen.

It listed for $7 million on May 27.

Malone joined the Nuggets as head coach in 2015 and was previously the head coach of the Sacramento Kings. He also served as an assistant coach of the New York Knicks, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Orleans Hornets and the Golden State Warriors.

• Listing agent: Tina Christensen with The Agency-Denver
• Buyer’s agent: Denver Trio with Realty One Group Premier

Home in 400 block of Cook St., Denver: $6 million

The Jim and Dianne Bosler 1993 Family Trust purchased the 7,686-square-foot mansion from Charles and Karen Farver.

The Farvers, who bought the home in 2019 for $3.7 million, listed it for $6.3 million on April 4. Charles Farver is the former chair of Pella Corp’s board of directors and a descendant of window company founder Pete Kuyper.

The home, constructed in 2007, includes four bedrooms, seven baths and a three-car garage. The Farvers recently completed an extensive interior renovation using award-winning design firm Mountain Luxury Interiors.

Bosler is chairman emeritus of JLB Partners, a national developer, builder, and manager of multifamily properties.

• Listing agent: Colin Dart with Milehimodern
• Buyer’s agent: Courtney Ranson with Milehimodern

Home in 60 block of Charlou Circle, Cherry Hills Village: $5.8 million

William and Janet Gooden bought the 8,101-square-foot house from the Elizabeth A. Rollins Revocable Trust and Fifth Edition Holdings LLC.

The four-bedroom, seven-bath mansion with a four-car garage was built in 2001. The house listed for $6.3 million on April 23.

61 Charlou is a single-level home that sits at the end of a cul-de-sac. After purchasing it in 2019, the trust extensively renovated the home by teaming with a local contractor and interior designer Andrea Schumacher.

The main level features a dining area that comfortably seats 12, a primary suite and another large bedroom suite, laundry, and exercise room with outdoor access. The lower level features a large recreation area, and two additional bedroom suites.

• Listing agent: Jeff Hendley with Compass-Denver
• Buyer’s agent: Karen Arras with Brokers Guild Homes

Home in the 400 block of Saint Paul St., Denver: $5.1 million

The Sarah D. Shore Inheritance Trust purchased the 7,029-square-foot home from 407 Saint Paul LLC. The trust purchased the house in 2016 for $4.5 million. It listed for $5.3 million on May 6.

The four-bedroom, five-bath stucco home with a three-car garage was designed by Semple Brown Design and constructed in 2005 for developer Paul Kobey as his home.

It features Kolbe windows, Rocky Mountain Hardware fixtures, walnut and lagos blue limestone floors, front and back patios, and a heated front walkway.

• Listing agents: Trish Bragg and Maggie Armstrong with LIV Sotheby’s International Realty
• Buyer’s agent: Trish Bragg and Maggie Armstrong with LIV Sotheby’s International Realty

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