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Shark Attack

January 19, 2012 by · Comments Off on Shark Attack 

Shark Attack, A surfer has described his split-second decision to rush to the aid of his mate, who was attacked by a two-metre bull shark at Redhead beach yesterday afternoon.

Nathan Visscher was 20 metres away from 44-year-old Glen Folkard at about 4.30pm yesterday when he heard shouting and calls for help.

“All of a sudden I heard a little bit profanity a little bit north of me,” Mr Visscher told 1233 Breakfast presenter Jenny Bates.

“He’d been knocked off his board, and he was yelling out ‘someone help, help, I need help!’

“It wasn’t until I saw a couple of bits of foam pop up, and a good stream of blood, that I realised ‘geez, this is a shark attack, this is really happening.”

Redhead’s beach lifeguard team leader Paul Stone described the assistance provided by surfers as ‘heroic’.

“Imagine putting yourself in that position,” Mr Stone said.

“You’d be thinking in two minds (thinking) ‘what do I do, do I save myself, or help someone else?

“It was a really selfless act, helping their mate back to the water’s edge.”

Lifeguards called the ambulance service, and were waiting at the water’s edge, by the time the surfer’s had returned to shore.

Mr Stone describes the incident as ‘surreal’.

“I don’t think anyone expects this will happen, although obviously it does from time to time,” he said.

Mr Folkard was rushed to John Hunter Hospital in a serious condition, and as a result all Lake Macquarie beaches are closed.

Shark Attack Santa Barbara

October 23, 2010 by · Comments Off on Shark Attack Santa Barbara 

Shark Attack Santa Barbara, The man, 19 years old, was the boogie-boarding with a friend of Surf Beach, near Vandenberg Air Force Base, when a shark between 14 and 20 feet long pulled the man under the water, the Department of Santa Barbara Sheriff, said in a statement, quoting a friend.

The man later died of wounds in the leg.

Swimmers cling to boogie boards to surf, while surfers are usually on their boards.

Shark attacks are extremely rare in the U.S. West Coast, numbering from a handful or so each year, according to the Shark Research Committee, a nonprofit group that attacks documents.

Surfers were the most frequent victims and great white sharks were the most frequent aggressors caused. Local beaches will be closed for three days.

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February 4, 2010 by · Comments Off on Shark Attack Florida 2010,Shark Attack Florida | www.usspost.com 

Shark Attack Florida 2010,Shark Attack Florida | www.usspost.com:The kite surfer had been killed after being surrounded and repeatedly bitten by what may be a group of great white sharks of the events.

Stephen Schaefer was found on Bites about 500 yards off the coast of Stuart, Florida on the Atlantic coast.

The guards first saw the plight of the man who was about 4pm, said Martin County Sheriff’s Office.

When locked to the investigation, said he found Mr. Schafer is still surrounded by sharks.

Scared and rescue from predators off with his paddle and then paddled back to shore with the victim.

It Bites multiple, including 10 bite-inch to his right thigh and the teeth marks on his buttocks left and right, officials said.

Schafer, 38, of Stuart, and was transferred to Martin Memorial North Medical Center, where he later died.

Martin County was the first fatal shark attack, according to records dating back to 1882.

Grant Gilmore, a leading oceanographer with the mouths of rivers, and coastal areas and ocean sciences at Vero Beach, a group of young great white may be responsible.

Investigators will determine the kind of sharks by studying the patterns of bite.

Gilmore said the size and type of sharks that can be drawn in the same way as it was when he said he was looking forward to the death in 1998, nine years), James Willie Tellasmon in Vero Beach.

The attack occurred in shallow water, due to the young tiger shark about six feet long.

Great whites prefer cooler waters north of the Atlantic Ocean, and usually not thought of as a shark in Florida.

But the smaller six to eight, including the foot migration to the east coast of Florida during the winter.

The three were among the four species found off the coast of Florida on the Atlantic Ocean are known to attack humans – a large hammer, Bulls Tigers – but they leave the area or go deep during the winter.

‘And other species only to collect in abundance in the winter there are great white shark events,’ said Gilmore.

George Burgess, keeper of the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History, said it was unlikely that the sharks and predators, some smaller, more common in the waters of South Florida.

‘This is the species involved in these problems from time to time off the east coast, but it is not man-eaters,’ said Burgess.

‘If it was, in fact, a gentleman yesterday, was bitten by sharks, and it’s much more likely to have been the larger species such as bull or tiger shark or white if it was in the region.

White shark is actually in the region, or could imagine, but not very regular visitors, ‘said Burgess.

Sheriff Capt. Mark McKinley said: ‘I have been here for 25 years. To my knowledge, this is the first shark-related deaths and we saw ‘.

He said Schafer’s friends said they are shocked by his death.

‘I’ve never heard of multiple sharks in the area surrounding people, fatally wounding him, said Teague Taylor (36 years), a childhood friend. ‘And the person more beautiful than ever before’.

Typically, sharks and appears in this area to deal with migratory fish bait.

Taylor said he was surprised to see the sharks as they usually come around the spring.

Taylor said he was roaming near where his friend was attacked by one day, and saw many of the sharks.

‘You always think in the back of your mind that [shark] being there,’ he said.

Jordan Schwartz, who knows Schafer for five years, said that he has had considerable experience kiteboard Server.

There were about 14 deaths in Florida attributed to the sharks, according to records provided by the University of Florida Museum of Natural History.

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