shark attack
Proving that you can’t keep a good man down, Glenn Orgias is back out there after a shark bit his hand off last February…good on ya Glenn!
Signs are posted up and down the north part of New Smyrna Beach saying "Warning dangerous marine life," referring to sharks. Some call it the shark bite capital of the world. This weekend lifeguard Captain Scott Petersohn said it lived up to its reputation.
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Father-son surfers Charles and Andrew Lindop were out to enjoy the waves at a beach in Sydney in February, when an 8-foot shark came to the beach looking for breakfast. Dad, Charles, heard his 15-year old son screaming, and when he looked up, saw about the worst thing any parent could imagine: a shark dragging his son off the board, and blood in the water.
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Let the tally begin. Volusia County (the shark bite capital of the world) has just encountered it's first nibble of 2009. Coming off a year in which the county broke it's own record for shark bites (24 attacks were recorded in 2008), Volusia houses the perfect storm of conditions for shark bites with Ponce Inlet's murky, fish-rich waters, along with surfers from jetty to jetty.
A young French man has died after he was attacked by sharks while surfing in New Caledonia, police say. The 19-year-old student's arm was ripped off and his leg bitten when he was attacked "apparently by several sharks" while trying to get back onto a boat with his friend on Friday, police said.
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Do these damn Aussie sharks have nothing better to eat than surfers and divers?
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Glen Lockery reckons he must be one of the luckiest men alive after surviving a body-slam by a shark.
A surfer was attacked Thursday by a shark at Sydney's famous Bondi Beach, seriously injuring his left hand and arm.
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“You have no idea how this has affected the community. People cannot believe this has happened. Nobody wants to go to the beach anymore,” said Bangilizwe’s neighbour, Malwanda Nombele, 23, who is also a lifeguard.
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