 Unlike the wave, the shark was damaged when it was removed by four city public works employees, who took 10 minutes to split it apart using hand saws in the morning of 2010-07-26 and two hours overall to remove it.Hardtke himself was not critical of the "Kook", and considers it a fair representation of average surfers, saying that "I'm sure I look like that.That's why everybody is so down on it.