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<title>Shark Attack</title>
<description>This map shows locations of shark attacks. I have added only attacks from the year 2000 until the present. The map is incomplete. It contains all unprovoked fatal attacks since 2000 and some non fatal attacks. Please add any shark attacks you know about.

You are far more likely to die as a result of driving to the beach than you are of being bitten by a shark while swimming. More people are killed by bees than by sharks each year. Elephants kill way more people than either bees or sharks.

Still, sharks are scarier.

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swimming, surfing, spear fishing, bitten, bite, attack, boogie boarding, beach, danger, animal, fear</description>
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<title>Juliette Shipp, age 9,  Bitten by Shark 06/27/06</title>
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        This may not be the exact location of the beach where this happened--I couldn't find the address of Ocean View Condos. But it is pretty close.

When Juliette Shipp starts fourth grade this fall, she'll have one heck of a "What I did over the summer" essay.

Speaking for the first time publicly since she was apparently bitten by a shark Tuesday morning, the 9-year-old Pennsylvania girl was tired, but in good spirits Friday. She has a cast on her right leg and numerous stitches, but doctors have said she should be able to make a full recovery, her mother Leslie Shipp said. 

"It's really achy and sometimes it hurts," Juliette said of her injury. "It's really scary when you look at it. It looks like 200 stitches ... and only one little part is not in stitches."

Juliette was standing in the surf on a beach in front of Ocean Village as her mother floated on a raft nearby when the first of three bites came without warning, she said. She caught a glimpse as something locked onto her calf and wiggled around, she said.

She saw a gray shape swim away from her after she was attacked and she cried out to her mom. "We both looked down and we were just screaming for a minute or two," Juliette said. 

"I'll play on the beach in the sand, but I don't think I'll go into the ocean again. It's just too scary," she said.

An account has been set up by Leslie Shipp in trust for Juliette Shipp at Riverside Bank, 1600 South Federal Highway, Fort Pierce, FL 34950. For more information, contact Riverside at (772) 464-4900. Shipp, who said she has limited insurance, plans to use the money to pay for medical expenses and potential future plastic surgery to cover scars on Juliette's leg. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/97376">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Five-time Olympic swimming gold medal winner Gary Hall survived a shark attack while spear fishing with his sister off the Florida coast.

The 35-year-old American fought off the shark by punching and kicking it in the nose until his injured sister was able to shoot it in the mouth with a spear gun, Hall said during the Janet Evans Invitational meet.

"Fortunately she injured the shark badly enough that a lot of blood was pouring from its mouth," Hall told the Los Angeles Times newspaper.

"The shark swam off. Otherwise with her bleeding as much as she was it could have been disastrous."

The US swim hero emerged unscathed from the attack, but his 28-year-old sister, Bebe, suffered a bite wound on the arm that required 19 stitches.

The incident took place in the Florida Keys, a string of small islands 24km southwest of Miami.

The drama began when the Halls were spear fishing about 200m from their boat and spotted a shark. They started swimming back to their boat when a 1.8m black tip reef shark attacked.

"Another shark larger than the first one we saw came in from the side and bit (Bebe) on the arm," Hall said. "I didn't realize she had been bitten before the shark was on me.

"It was swimming after me and thrashing and had its back arched in a frenzy mode. I kept punching it in the nose and kicking it and it kept coming after me.

"I was eventually able to get underneath it and roll it off of me. That's when it charged toward my sister.

"She had already been bitten, but in the meantime she had enough sense to load the spear.

"The shark charged her with its mouth open and she shot it."

The shark swam away and they managed to get back to the boat where Hall fashioned a tourniquet for Bebe's arm.

"It was definitely a shot of adrenaline," Hall said. "I don't know what my split was for the 50m, but I am sure I haven't swum that fast in years."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/107546">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Caelin Lacy of West Palm Beach, Fla., said she was about 25 feet out in the ocean around 11 a.m. Saturday and had just "caught a great wave" when the attack happened.

"Another good wave was coming and I started kicking. All the sudden, I turned around and something had grabbed hold of my foot," Lacy said Monday from Georgetown Memorial Hospital, where she is recovering after receiving 70 stitches to her leg and ankle and treatment for three tendons severed in the attack.

It looked like a 6-foot-long bull shark, Lacy said.

"It tore up my foot but it didn't thrash or anything. I kicked it with my right foot, and it let go immediately," Lacy said.

Lacy, whose family visits the Grand Strand every summer, said she will get back in the ocean as soon as she can.

"You're more likely to be struck by lightning than you are to be attacked by sharks," she said.

"I can't let this keep me out of the water."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/107550">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Dallas Jackson will return to his Ohio home this week with a souvenir that most Hilton Head Island visitors would rather do without.

Jackson, from Sylvania, outside Toledo, apparently was bitten by a shark at Singleton Beach on Monday. Authorities have not confirmed the attack, but Jackson said the teeth marks and puncture wounds on his foot and ankle are all the confirmation he needs. He needed about a dozen stitches.
If the bite is confirmed, it will be the fourth attack in South Carolina and the second on Hilton Head this year<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/107548">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Police are amazed at the bravery of a young surfer who plunged into blood-clouded surf in a vain attempt to save his mate from a killer shark off northern NSW this morning.

The survivor, 16, has been treated for shock and released from a Ballina hospital after dragging his dying friend to shore moments after he was savaged off the town's Lighthouse Beach.

The mauled teenager, bitten on the legs and body, died on the beach from massive blood loss.

His friend told lifesavers the sea turned red after the attack by a large shark.

Detective Inspector Steve Clark said the teenagers, both from Wollongbar, west of Ballina, had taken advantage of a teacher stop-work meeting to go bodyboarding off Ballina's Lighthouse Beach when the shark struck about 8am.

"At that time one of them has left the water and gone to the shore, at which point he has looked back and seen his friend in distress,'' Detective Inspector Clark said.

"He has re-entered the water and started paddling out to his friend.''

As he paddled out, the boy saw a "large, dark shadow'' moving away from his friend.

"Despite seeing that, he's still gone to his friend, retrieved him, brought him back to the shore and attempted to revive him,'' Detective Inspector Clark said.

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        Zak, from Mt Gambier, had been with his 18-year-old brother 40 metres off Wharton Beach, 70km east of Esperance, at 7.40am (WST) when a five-metre white pointer attacked him.

Part of Zak's right leg was bitten off by the huge shark, which also mauled and punctured his other leg, leaving it severely lacerated.
The shark remained in the area for several hours after the attack, but rough weather prevented police and fisheries officers from getting close to the shark.

WA Fisheries incident controller Tony Cappelluti today said his staff were flying over the area to see whether the shark or other sharks still posed a threat.

Mr Cappelluti said his staff would call for beaches to be cleared if a dangerous shark was spotted and a WA Fisheries five-metre boat would be dispatched to "herd" it from the area.

"We are not in a position to hunt down the shark," he said.

"We have shark capture equipment on the boat, but that is an absolute last resort.

"Trying to deal with a big animal with a relatively small boat is just not an option."

Local fishermen are planning to set lines to catch it.

The teenager was dragged to the beach where two New Zealand tourists and his brother helped stem the flow of blood by tying an extension cord around his leg.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/973438">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Luciano Costanzo, a 47-year-old scuba diver, went out spearfishing with his 19-year-old son and a friend one mile off the coast, near the island of Elba, not knowing that he would soon encounter a shark, believed to be a great white and measuring either "20 feet long" (according to the Associated Press), or "at least 22 feet" (Reuters). From a depth of about 75 feet, Costanzo suddenly surfaced, screamed, "Shark!" and lunged for the boat but was jerked back below before he could reach it.

The shark then leapt out of the water twice, its jaws clamped around Costanzo's waist, before vanishing — and notching the Mediterranean's first reported shark attack in nearly three decades.

"I clearly saw my father in the mouth of the shark," his son, Gianluca, later said. "The water became red with my father's blood." Three days later, a dive team searching with an underwater camera found only flippers, a weight belt, and two scuba tanks with tooth marks in them.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4598769">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        A 17-year-old girl suffered minor injuries when she became the first shark attack victim in Volusia County, Fla., in 2009, an official says.

Volusia County Beach Patrol Capt. Scott Petersohn said the teenage shark victim had been surfing near Ponce de Leon Inlet's south jetty when the attack occurred, the Daytona (Fla.) News-Journal said Friday.

"This is where all the surfers go for the best waves, and this is where all the bites occur," Petersohn said.

The beach patrol official said the teen was barely hurt in Wednesday's attack.

"It was a three-Band-Aid shark bite," he said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4598881">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        A 51-year-old surfer has survived a close encounter with a large shark, which became tangled in his leg rope and dragged him like a "powerful jet ski" off the NSW north coast.

Surf shop operator John Morgan said he was about 300 metres offshore at the northern NSW tourist town of Byron Bay when he suddenly found he was being dragged out to sea.

"I had just come off a wave when I saw a large swirl of water," Mr Morgan told the Northern Star newspaper.

"I was then suddenly hauled backwards ... like I was riding behind a powerful jet ski."

Mr Morgan said he laid down on his longboard as the shark, which he estimated was about three metres long, dragged him about 50 metres.

He said he was "freaked" but waited for the shark to free itself, and just hoped it wouldn't return to attack him.

"The water was dirty, so I couldn't make out what type of shark it was, but I knew from the splashing white water that it was roughly eight to 10 foot," he said.

"I think the shark was as scared as I was.

"It totally freaked me out. I'm just glad it didn't turn around and bite me."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4598781">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        John Emory never imagined that he could be attacked by a shark while standing in only three feet of water in the ocean. The civil contractor, who works for the United States government, was spear fishing together with a friend who is an ex-diver for the Navy. Suddenly, while his friend was diving, Emory, who was close to the shore, felt a great amount of water rush up at him.

“I thought it was simply a sudden surge, when instantly I felt as if I had been hit by a car or struck by a baseball bat on the leg. That’s when I realized that a shark had attacked me and held my left leg between its jaws to devour me. I punched its head with all my might, but it was as if I’d hit concrete covered in sandpaper,” he says.

Emory goes on to say that in his case, there was a lot of blood in the water, and the shark actually retreated some distance away, lying in wait. His friend came to his aid, passing close to the shark without being attacked by it. Once outside the water he helped Emory apply a tourniquet, using a belt to try to contain the hemorrhaging a bit.

“The wound was very big, I was bleeding, my blood pressure dropped very much, and I thought I was going to die. I felt as if I were dreaming, as if all that was a nightmare”, says Emory.

With the help of his friend and others, the injured man was retrieved from the water and transported by speedboat to the local military hospital.

“I was stabilized at the hospital, but I thought I would lose my leg. The wound was very deep. They told me later that you could see my bone”, Emory remembers. “Luckily, I was transferred by jet to Fort Lauderdale, Florida where an ambulance drove me to the Aventura Hospital. There, they miraculously saved me”, the patient assures.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4598796">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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03/06/2009 Kevin Hannecart ( New Caledonia ) ***Fatal***

Postby sharkbait » Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:57 am
A YOUNG French man has died after he was attacked by sharks while surfing in New Caledonia, The 19-year-old student's arm was ripped off and his leg bitten when he was attacked "apparently by several sharks"**



French surfer killed in New Caledonia shark attack

From correspondents in Noumea | March 06, 2009
Article from: Agence France-Presse
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.

The man's friend managed to get him to shore, but he was dead by the time emergency workers reached him.

The incident took place in an area popular with surfers and was the first fatal shark attack in the French Pacific territory since September 2007, when a young nurse was killed.

The victim was from northwest France but was studying in the New Caledonia capital, Noumea.
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        Tom Larson was surfing near the south jetty when he felt something grab his foot, saying it felt like a vise or a bear trap bearing down on him. It began shaking him, and Larson said he soon realized it was a shark when he saw the fin.

Larson said adrenaline took over and he repeatedly hit the shark with his surfboard until the fish let go. He immediately started screaming “Shark! Shark!” in an attempt to alarm his friends and get them out of the water.

He was able to paddle his way back to shore. He was treated at Peace Harbor Hospital in Florence and then released.

Larson plans to continue surfing.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/231548">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        The attack happened just south of Ponce Inlet, near the Crawford Street beach ramp. While, Monday, SkyWitness didn't spot any sharks in the area, no one saw sharks Sunday, either, until it was too late.

"It hurt really bad," Jack told Eyewitness News.

It's a heck of a story for show and tell when Jack returns to Heathrow Elementary.

"A shark came and bit me on my leg. The first time, it didn't feel so bad. Second time, I'm like , 'I just got bit by a shark!'"

Nearly two dozen puncture wounds required 60 stitches. There will be a scar and an everlasting memory of the panic.

"Until we pulled him out of water, couldn't tell what happened. I was thrilled all the toes were there. But there was lots of blood and I'm with baby screaming," said Jennifer LoMedico, Jack's mother.

On top of it all, Jack's little brother, Andrew, was also in the water and saw the whole thing.

"He was scared and he was crying after I got bit," Jack said.

"He got bit by a shark and I was crying because I was so sad," Andrew said.

On Tuesday, Jack will go back to school for his show and tell and a word of advice to other beachgoers.

"I would probably tell them not to go onto sandbar unless it's an area with no sharks on it," he said.

Believe it or not, Jack wants to go back in the ocean, someday. But for now, the closest he will come to any body of water is in his backyard in the pool.

Beach Patrol said that it was likely a spinner shark that bit Jack. Like most attacks, the juvenile shark likely thought the 7-year-old's leg was food.

Lifeguards said such incidents will increase as the water warms and when the ocean is murky and turbulent, which it is now.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1303719">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        As I hauled the second set I noticed a lot of the baits hadn't been touched and wondered if the fish had maybe gone off the bite, but then a silver glint deep down in the clear water slowly came into focus. It was a good snapper, this is what I came for, I thought. But wait, what is that?

Deep beneath the boat a long dark shadow was moving ever so slowly?

At first I thought it could be a huge clump of seaweed drifting in the current, it was too deep to see clearly, whatever it was became tangled in my mainline and it all drifted under the boat.

My first sense of foreboding doom began to creep over me when the mainline moved back to it's original position and the nice snapper I was hauling in lay on the surface before me. Most of it was missing - only half of it's head was left - and I didn't even feel it happen!

It was then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the large dark shadow moving slowly back towards me. As the shadow turned to shape I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

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        A 12-year-old boy was treated for puncture wounds after a shark bit him on the ankle, authorities said.

Matthew Honyak told authorities he saw the mouth of the shark when it bit him Sunday, the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

Lifeguards sounded an alarm and rushed to help after an unidentified man yelled "Shark bite!" Matthew was treated at a hospital and discharged later Sunday, according to hospital records.

It was the fourth shark attack in six weeks off Hutchinson Island, along Florida's east coast.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1310236">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Longtime surfer Larry Olson knew he should not have gone into the water at Normandy Beach on Saturday.

Before paddling out, he noticed the two surefire signs that sharks were nearby: schools of bait fish and diving pelicans. 

But Olson couldn't resist the 4-foot swells, though he now regrets that decision.

He estimates the shark that bit him was between 3 and 5 feet and weighed about 25 pounds. He think it might have been a blacktip.

"He was just being a shark," Olson said. "He didn't do anything wrong. I love and respect sharks."

The 37-year-old Port St. Lucie resident is expected to make a full recovery and hopes to get back on his surf board in about three months.

"I'm dying to go surfing again," he said. "Next time I'll just pay more attention."

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        Hudson Anthony was bitten by a shark, likely a lemon shark, while on vacation with his family.  He was standing alone waist deep in a school of minnows when he felt an intense pain.  The shark had come up behind him.  

Based on the wound doctors believe the attack was from a 4 to 5 foot sand shark.  The cut required two layers of stitches and eight stitches on top.

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        A 24-year-old man underwent surgery on his hand Friday after being attacked by a shark while surfing off New Smyrna Beach.

The bite victim is Chad Guthrie and authorities said he was attacked by a three to four foot shark near the 27th Avenue Beach approach. He was taken to Halifax Medical Center and underwent several hours of surgery Friday afternoon.

Guthrie's family members said he is a physical therapist in New Smyrna Beach.

According to the Voulsia County Beach Patrol, Guthrie suffered deep gashes to his left index finger and thumb.

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        "Yesterday, while swimming at a Charleston beach with his family, our son Noah Green was stricken with a severe ankle laceration and dislocation caused by a fish believed to be a shark. The event occurred in about three feet of water and within 25 - 30 yards of the shoreline at around 4:30pm.

Noah is a 30-year-old teacher who is visiting his Iowa and Nebraska family in between teaching assignments in China. Noah has been teaching English in either China or South Korea for five years.

During the first exploratory surgery last evening, the ankle was repositioned and the wound cleaned and evaluated. We are expecting to conduct a second, reconstruction and repair surgery later Friday.

Noah's spirits are good. His first concern was for the reaction of his bride, Ling, whom he married last month in China. His second concern was for the well-being of the young swimmer who experienced a similar attack no more than two hours earlier in the same area.

The family is grateful for the quick reactions and courage of those on the beach who contributed to the rescue. We were fortunate to have a surgeon, doctor and nurse all vacationing on the beach near us. The paramedics and the emergency action people of Mount Pleasant reacted quickly to Noah's needs, and we feel the personnel of East Cooper Regional Medical Center have aided greatly with our support. Accidents of this nature reinforce the need to have an appropriate emergency notification plan in place, and have the necessary emergency equipment at hand to aid with emergency recoveries at both public and private beaches." <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2054790">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        A Labor Day beach-goer in Fort Lauderdale required stitches to his arm after he suffered what he told rescuers was a shark bite Monday morning.

The 58-year old part-time resident was in the water around 9:45 a.m. Monday at the beach off 14th Court, just north of Hugh Taylor Birch State Park, when he was bitten. Lois Bowman, division chief of the city Fire Department, said she could not confirm that it was a shark attack.

The beach remained open with no warning flags after a Broward Sheriff's Office helicopter flew the beach and found no sharks in the area.

"He believed he was bitten by a spinner shark feeding on bait fish," Bowman said.

The bite, to the man's left foreman, was about 3 inches long and a half-inch deep. Emergency workers took the man, who was not identified, to Broward General Medical Center.

Guido Garlaschi, of Plantation, was in the water nearby when he heard the man scream. He said the water was flat and that he saw no large fish in the area.

"There are more car accidents in one morning than shark attacks in a year in Fort Lauderdale," he said.

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        The International Shark Attack File recorded one fatal unprovoked shark attack in the Cape Verde Islands in 2001.

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        Volusia County Beach Patrol reports that the 20-year-old man was surfing Monday afternoon when a shark grabbed his right ankle. Rescuers described the injury as minor. He was treated at the scene.

A beach patrol spokesman says April is a prime month for bites because of murky water, good waves and lots of bait fish in the surf.
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        Bruce Klinker, 51, said no one knows how large the shark was or what kind it was, but his foot was severely injured.

"It got its whole mouth around his foot, and the top was gashed, and there were little marks where it was trying to grab him," said his wife, Peggy Anne Klinker.

Bruce Klinker was swimming with his daughter, Bridgette, over the weekend, in Jupiter, Fla.

"It grabbed me and shook, and I knew something was wrong," he said. "I pulled my foot up on my board and made sure the rest of me was on my surfboard and yelled to Bridgette and started paddling for shore as hard as I could."

Bruce Klinker told his wife he never saw the animal, and at first, he didn't know what had grabbed him. It wasn't until an expert took a look at the injury later that it was confirmed to be shark bite.

Surgeons were able to attach three tendons, but a nerve was permanently damaged. He may lose feeling in his left foot, but he should be able to walk again normally with intensive therapy, he said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4611961">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        A teenage surfer never saw the great white shark that attacked him off a Sydney beach, savagely mauling him on the leg.

Andrew Lindop, 15, and his father Charles were having an early morning surf at Avalon on the northern beaches when the attack occurred on March 1.

The shark, identified as a 2.6-metre great white, bit into Andrew's leg from the thigh to the ankle, snapping the bone and tearing muscle.

Andrew screamed, alerting his father who managed to get him safely to shore before stemming the bleeding using a leg rope as a tourniquet.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4598923">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        The tackle-shop owner was attacked by a lesser-spotted dogfish after he reeled it in off Folkestone pier, Kent.

He fought for five minutes to wrench the thrashing creature, a mini member of the shark family, off his hooter as laughing passers-by looked on.

Phil, 38, was left with a bloody gash and rows of tiny teethmarks round his nostrils.

The dogfish struck as local lad Phil tried to show it off to pal Scott Allen. Phil said last night: “I called out, ‘Hey mate, look at this whopper’. But somehow Scott nudged my arm and the fish catapulted itself up to my nose with its jaws wide open.

“It clamped around my nostrils and wouldn’t let go. It was agony and I was screaming. The fish didn’t just hang on, either. I could feel it chomping its teeth as if it wanted me for its last meal.

“Everyone on the pier was watching me jumping up and down with a shark hanging off my nose. People were singing the Jaws theme tune — I’ve never felt so embarrassed.” Phil finally pulled the fish away and tended to his wound.

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        The 15-year-old was wading in waist-deep water just five metres from the shore with his younger brother and sister when he was bitten three times on his calf.

He managed to fend off the 1.5-metre shark at the popular swimming spot by punching it in the head while his siblings escaped.

His mother, Roz, says she helped her son to the shore, where he began to take charge of the situation.

"Angus took over, said 'get a tourniquet,' and so we found some rope and tied it up and laid him there and raised his leg and stopped the bleeding," Mrs Chapman said.

"He was just fantastic, he was just so tough, so strong...

"I think he'd actually seen some horror movie where some guy bled to death and so I think he was really paranoid that he was just going to bleed to death.

"He was panicking, you know, wanting to get that leg tied up just so that he wouldn't, so ordering us all what to do.

"He was really brave."

Mrs Chapman says they called for help once they had wrapped his leg.

"We just waved to yachts and a lovely old yachtie came over with his dinghy and we got in there and had a pretty rough uncomfortable trip for about 45 minutes to the hospital," she said.

The 15-year-old was then flown to Perth, more than 3,000 kilometres away, and underwent surgery this morning.

He is expected to make a full recovery.

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<title>Glen Lockery Body Slammed by Shark while Surfing, February 18, 2009</title>
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        GLEN Lockery reckons he must be one of the luckiest men alive after surviving a body-slam by a shark.

The predator came at him from the deep before disappearing into murky post-flood surf at Shelly Beach near Port Macquarie at about 5pm last Wednesday.

Mr Lockery was waiting for a wave, watching his mates paddle in, when he was attacked.

"I was sitting out the back on my own and just got hit from below,'' he said yesterday.

It was a massive impact that flipped his surfboard up to hit him in the face.

Mr Lockery caught a glimpse of the shark's girth - about twice as wide as his surfboard.

"People have told me that when it comes from the deep it is either a great white or a tiger. It lifted the board and broke the nose,'' he said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4614408">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Jeremy McDonagh, 19, Bitten on Arm in Shallow Water, January 24, 2009</title>
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        Jeremy McDonagh, 19, from Canberra, was swimming between the flags in a metre of water at Surf Beach, near Batemans Bay on Saturday, when the shark struck.

Mr McDonagh says children were swimming next to him when the shark latched on to his arm causing severe bleeding.

He says the wounds needed hospital treatment.

"It was all infected, so I had to get antibiotics and tetanus shots because they said there was bacteria in the shark's mouth," he said.

"They said it was all rotten meat, so you can get a real bad infection and stuff that I didn't realise until the next day when my hand was all puffed up and killing me."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4617009">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Swimmer Bitten by Shark, February 2, 2009</title>
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        A  person has been attacked by a shark near Motueka at Kina Beach on Tasman Bay. Police are clearing swimmers from Kina and several adjacent beaches.

The swimmer suffered deep wounds to his torso and possibly has internal injuries. He has been taken to Nelson Hospital by helicopter.

People are being asked to stay out of the water in the area for the rest of the day. Police do not know exactly where the shark is or what breed it is. A DOC expert says sharks are known to frequent Tasman Bay in large numbers at this time of the year.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4617044">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>French Nurse Killed by Shark, Sept 30, 2007</title>
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A YOUNG woman was killed in a shark attack while swimming off the Loyalty Islands archipelago in French New Caledonia overnight, police said.

The 23-year-old victim, who had headed out with a friend for an early morning swim, bled to death after suffering a deep shark bite from knee to hip.

Her friend managed to swim ashore to ask local tribesmen for help, but they were too late.

An analysis was underway to determine which species of shark was responsible for the attack, which occurred about 200 metres offshore from Lifou, one of four islands in the South Pacific archipelago.

The victim, a nurse from mainland France who had just finished a hospital contract in Noumea, was in Lifou for a short beach holiday before flying home. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2112499">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-10-02 08:15:13.056035+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Julie Glance Bitten by Shark 11/02</title>
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        November 17, 2002

Julie Glance always dreamed of entering the Hawai'i Ironman triathlon. Now, she doubts she'll get in the ocean again — at least here in Hawai'i.

"I'm kind of in shock right now," the 34-year-old amateur triathlete said yesterday — the day after she was attacked by a shark 150 yards from her Ka'anapali hotel.

Glance, who received severe injuries to her right shoulder, arm and wrist, said she was happy to be alive during a news conference at Maui Memorial Medical Center.

"Right now I'm very, very happy," she said. "I didn't think I was going to make it. I was afraid he was going to come back again and finish me off."

Glance is the mother of two — a 2-year-old and a 5-month-old — and chief executive of Grossmont Schools Federal Credit Union in El Cajon, Calif. She said she went swimming by herself as a workout to help get back in shape following the birth of her youngest child.

The attack occurred at about 10:30 a.m. Sunday just after she swam 150 yards from the Embassy Suites Hotel and had turned parallel to the shore.

Glance said the water was somewhat cloudy and she didn't see what slammed into her shoulder and then sliced into her arm and bit her on the wrist.

She said she and the shark turned in different directions, but before it swam a way, she caught a glimpse of its head and tail. It was gray, she said, with a white tip on its tail. She estimated the length at 6 feet. She said she didn't recognize the species, but could probably identify it from pictures.

Glance said she was able to swim halfway to shore with the help of her fins. Luckily, she said, a surfer heard her screams and helped her in the rest of the way.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89133">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>James Willie Tellasmon, 9</title>
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        Killed on November 21, 1998 while swimming off Ocean Beach, Jaycee Park, Indian River County, Florida. His torso and legs washed up on the beach the next day. His arms and head were never recovered. The nature of the wounds allowed experts to conclusively establish that the shark was a Tiger Shark, about six feet in length.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/95210">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Nick Peterson Eaten by Great White 12/04</title>
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        December 17, 2004

It was Thursday afternoon at suburban West Beach in Adelaide at the start of the first hot spell of summer. A tourist from the Czech Republic, Lenka Mrzilkova, looked out to sea and saw a large black dorsal fin only 30 metres from shore. Thinking it must be a dolphin, she photographed the distinctively angled fin of the great white shark and left.

About 400 metres from shore Nick Peterson, 18, and his three best friends were messing around in a dinghy with a surfboard towed behind. One of them had been on the board but asked to be pulled back in.

Nick Peterson, a surfer and experienced water man, jumped off next and asked his friends to throw him the board. Within seconds a great white shark as long as the five-metre boat surfaced and grabbed Nick by the left arm. It dragged him along the length of the boat by the arm and back, playing with him before a second shark apparently joined the attack.

The boys, friends from Adelaide's Sacred Heart College, tried to beat the sharks off with oars but Nick, who left school a year ago and was working as a paver, died quickly in front of them.

About 3.15pm, Anna and Frank Criscitelli were preparing to put their boat to sea when the boys reached the shore and ran towards them yelling, "Don't go out, don't go out, sharks, sharks."

The boys were in shock. "Our friend has just been taken by a shark," they screamed.

Over the next few hours Nick's surfboard was washed up and some human remains were recovered. At first light more remains were found.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89184">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        February 1, 2006

Tessa Marie Horan was working in a tiny Tongonese village called Tu'anuku on the island of  Vava'u when she died. She and two boys from the village were swimming to cool off after a soccer game when a shark attacked her, according to her mother, Kristena Prater, who heard the story of her daughter's death from Bob Kirkhorn, a Peace Corps director of special services. 

"The boy that was swimming behind her knew immediately that she had been attacked by a shark, and even knowing that, he went swimming out to save her," Prater said. 

But the shark bit off most of Horan's right leg, and she bled to death almost instantly, her mother said. 

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<title>Linda Whitehurst fights off Great White with a kayak paddle, Oct 15, 2007</title>
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        John Concepcion - AHN News Writer

Sydney, Australia (AHN) - A kayaker on Monday repelled the attack of an 8-foot great white shark along the coast of one of Australia's popular beaches using her paddle and escaped to safety with only a minor bite wound in the wrist.

Linda Whitehurst, 52, was paddling her kayak near the eastern coast of Byron Bay when the shark lunged at her and knocked her off her craft. The shark reportedly bit a portion of the kayak.

Whitehurst said she hit the shark with her double-ended paddle until it let go and went away. She was able to paddle back to the shore.

In an interview with an Australian TV network, Whitehurst said, "I'm going to lose a limb, that was my first thought."

She added, "I had my blade in my hands so I punched at it with my blade. That was the only way I was going to survive."I just kept punching, punching, punching at the shark until it swam away."

Once back at shore, Whitehurst received four stitches in her right arm for the bite wound.

Her husband Glen also told the network that he saw the shark rise up and bite the back of his wife's kayak. 

He said, "(It) literally lifted itself in the back of Linda's boat ... and had the back of the boat in its mouth and gave it a shake."

Half an hour after the said attack, the beach was closed, but was re-opened a few hours after.

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<title>Aisake Sadole, 28, killed by shark May 14th 2008</title>
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        A Fijian diver died after being bitten by a shark on May 14th 2008 off of Ba Fiji.

The 28-year-old man, Aisake Sadole, was part of a group of four who went night diving in Ba

According to police reports, the group realized one of their members was missing after he failed to surface.

They dived again and found his body at the bottom of the sea.

Sadole was rushed to the Lautoka Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.

The shark bit his arm and the man died as a result of excessive blood loss. 

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        A 23-year-old man suffered injuries to his left calf and foot when a shark attacked him while he surfed Sunday in Brazilian waters declared off-limits to surfers.

Antonio Carvalho was attacked while surfing off Boa Viagem beach in Recife, some 1,300 miles (2,100 kilometers) northeast of Sao Paulo, firefighters said.

Shark attacks are a fairly common phenomenon off the beaches around Recife, where sharks feed in waters beyond a large coral reef. Signs along the beaches warn not to swim beyond the reef and surfing is now prohibited.

Gleison Sena of the Pernambuco state fire department said Carvalho was surfing in a high-risk area, where signs warn keep surfers away due to the frequent shark attacks.

Carvalho was the 48th person to suffer a shark attack in Pernambuco state since 1992. Seventeen of those attacks were fatal.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/87317">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Diver Attacked By Shark, 05/24/06</title>
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        A tiger shark injured a Japanese tourist who was diving near Gun Beach in Tumon.

Hideki Noma, an instructor with Gently Blue Diving Company, said he took a group of four Japanese tourists diving at Gun Beach last week.

The group was at an estimated 32 feet below the surface when a turtle quickly ascended and swam so close through the group that it was within arm's reach, Noma said through a translator.

The turtle was swimming fast because it was being chased by a 13-foot tiger shark that had its mouth open, he said.

The shark's teeth scraped one of the tourists on the leg as it passed by, Noma said. The tourist, in a panic, also scraped his leg on coral. The group quickly returned to land and the tourist was taken to the PMC Isla Health System clinic and received about 10 stitches.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/87318">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Sarah Whiley killed by Bull Sharks 01/07/06</title>
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        Sarah Whiley was attacked by as many as three sharks. She screamed for help but beach-goers mistook her frantic calls for help as a prank.

harks savaged Sarah Whiley, 21, tearing off both her arms and badly mauling her torso and legs.

Miss Whiley, who was swimming at Stradbroke Island with three friends from a church group on Saturday evening, had shouted "Shark!". But her friends on the beach ignored her screams.

"She went down in the water," said Peter Harding, a police inspector. "After about five or six seconds the deceased came out of the water and screamed 'Shark!'. Of course, people at the time thought she was only joking - until they saw the blood."

Miss Whiley was pulled from the water by two local fishermen and dragged on to the beach.

A local teenage girl, who tried to comfort the injured woman while she lay on the beach, said Miss Whiley was still conscious at that time. "She kept on saying that she was going to die," said the girl, whose mother asked for her name to be withheld.

Tourist beaches on the eastern coast of Australian were closed yesterday as police divers hunted for the sharks responsible for the attack. They were hoping to retrieve the dead swimmer's missing limbs - although they admit that this is a remote possibility.

They also hope to confirm the type of shark, and number, involved in the attack, which occurred in chest-high water at a popular swimming beach.

By a grim coincidence, the attack took place off Amity Beach - the same name as the fictional island setting of the Hollywood shark horror film Jaws.

The Queensland state government yesterday ordered an investigation into the incident. Amity Point, where the attack occurred, is protected by shark nets and drumlines - large baited hooks anchored to the seabed - which should keep swimmers safe.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/87327">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Garry Turner Bitten by Shark 09/22/02</title>
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        (AP) -- A shark bit a boogie boarder on the left ankle, tearing flesh down to the bone, hospital officials said.

Garry Turner, 24 of Portland swam back to the beach Saturday and was taken to Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital in Lincoln City, and then sent by ambulance to Portland, said hospital spokesman Brandon Ford.

Turner was listed in fair condition Sunday.

He and two friends were boogie boarding and surfing off Cape Kiwanda near Pacific City. Turner said the three were waiting for waves about 200 feet from the coast when the shark attacked.

"I was sitting on my boogie board and talking when something grabbed my foot and tried to pull it straight down," Turner said from his hospital bed.

Turner said he didn't immediately realize he had been bitten. Wearing fins, his first reaction was to free his foot by kicking hard and thrusting himself back on the board.

But the shark circled back, and it was then that the three realized what had happened.

"My friend yelled, 'Shark. Shark"' Turner said. "I saw the gills just as it was dropping back in the water."

The three then paddled vigorously toward the shore and the shark apparently lost interest.

Witnesses told emergency workers that the shark was about eight-feet long and seemed to lunge out of the water. Area fishermen said it was likely a blue or a sand shark, among the most common types in that part of the Pacific Ocean.

Turner will likely make a full recovery because the bite didn't sever tendons, hospital officials said.

Ford said the last time a shark bite victim had come to his hospital was six years ago, when a surfer was bitten on the thigh. It was believed a great white was involved in that attack. That person made a full recovery, he said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/87328">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Mary Strong bitten by Bull Shark 07/02</title>
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        EMERALD ISLE — Strong had just arrived for vacation with her parents and was swimming in about 4 feet of water near the 6600 block of Ocean Drive around 5 p.m. while her family unpacked the car. She was in the water for about five minutes before something bit her leg. She got out of the water on her own.

Although Strong suffered no broken bones, Mary Metzler, chief of Emerald Isle Emergency Medical Services, said the bite caused “massive damage.”

“It grabbed her from the back of her calf,” Metzler said Sunday. “You could see the bite marks pretty well.

“The back of her calf was pretty well chewed.”

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JENSEN BEACH -- A 10-year-old Port St. Lucie boy was in stable condition Sunday night after being attacked by a shark as he swam with a group of children 30 yards off the south end of the public beach.

The attack, among the first in Florida this spring, occurred hours earlier on a sunny afternoon when Jensen Beach was filled with sunbathers and swimmers. Yellow flags were posted as 2-foot seas came ashore. Some swimmers said bait fish could be seen in the water.

Lifestar emergency services flew Corey Brooks, who was suffering reportedly from a 12- to 14-inch gash in his right calf, to St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach. Brooks underwent surgery Sunday evening at St. Mary's, according to his mother, Tammie Brooks of Port St. Lucie.

Reportedly, her son had more than 100 stitches in his leg and was resting in the facility's intensive care unit after surgery.

Tammie Brooks said Corey had gone to the beach with family friends when she received the "bad news he was bit by a shark. They told me he was airlifted here," she said, standing outside of St. Mary's.

She said she was told her son had been playing in waist-deep water and thought one of his friends was pulling on his leg underwater. Then he saw a shark had bitten him and he ran crying for help.

A lifeguard supervisor said guards were unable to forewarn swimmers because the attack occurred too far down the beach from the posted lifeguard stations to monitor the shark siting. Lifeguards were informed of the attack about 1 p.m., when a guard was told the boy was bitten as he swam in the surf with more than 20 other children.

Lifeguards then quickly called everyone onto the beach from the water and stabilized the boy.

Joe Kostygan, chief lifeguard for Martin County, said the attack occurred "quite a way down the beach" from a guard station. "It was out of the guarded area at the extreme end of the public beach."


He said, "It's been a heck of while at least 10 or 12 years" since he could remember another attack there. The incident was probably "a chance encounter."

"Shark attacks are such a chance encounter you could be looking right at it," and not see it, Kostygan said. Most swimmers were packed pretty close to shore. "They would have noticed him if he was out further," he said of Corey.

Corey was conscious and "pretty calm" but in pain, said Martin County Fire Rescue firefighter/paramedic T.J. Guzzi and fire medic Doug Young.

"He had a pretty significant bite, it did appear serious. He was stable, but we took him to St. Mary's just to make sure," Young said. Lifeguards and fire officials "did a great job," he said. "The scene was pretty controlled."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/87330">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        (AP) -- A shark dragged a man from his friend's arms and killed him Tuesday off Australia's southern coast, officials said.

The victim, a 23-year-old professional diver, was diving for scallops from an anchored boat with a friend when he was attacked by the shark, South Australia Ambulance spokesman Lee Francis said.

The friend tried to pull the victim onto the boat but the shark pulled the man into the water, Francis said. The victim's name was not released.

The victim's friend was not hurt, but was taken to a hospital to be treated for shock.

"I understand he (the victim) came to the surface. There was a cry for help," Francis said. "But as the other person tried to get him on board, the shark grabbed him and pulled him underneath."

Francis said the men's boat was anchored off the small South Australian fishing port of Smoky Bay, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) northwest of the state capital Adelaide, when the attack happened around noon.

Smoky Bay is known as haunt of the great white shark.

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Jamie Daigle, of Gonzales, Louisiana, and her friend Felicia Venable, also 14, were swimming Saturday morning about 200 yards offshore in the Gulf of Mexico when they saw a dark shadow in the water, according to a statement issued Sunday by the Walton County Sheriff's Office.

Tim Dicus was surfing near the girls Saturday when he heard a scream.

"I was about 200 yards out, just past the second sandbar," Dicus said. "And when I heard the scream, I turned around and saw one of the girls swimming towards the beach frantically and the other one had disappeared and there was a big dark spot where she used to be in the water."

"She was unconscious when I got to the blood pool," Dicus said.

"So I tried to pull her from the water -- the shark had made an attack when I was trying to get her out of the water. But it gave me enough time to get her on to the board once he had to come back around to make another attack."

Dicus said the shark -- about 8 feet long -- continued to try to attack them on his surfboard as he made his way to shore.

"He was really aggressive," Dicus said. "I've been here a long time and I've never seen a shark get that aggressive."

"She was hurt really bad. It looked like she was going to at least lose her leg," Dicus said.

"The damage on her left leg was really extensive, and I didn't know whether she had just gone into shock -- but she'd pretty much stopped bleeding by the time I got her on to the beach -- so I didn't know how we were going to save her."

Dicus said he had warned other swimmers earlier in the day against going out too far, fearing shark attacks.

Although shark sightings are not uncommon along the coast, no one had seen a shark in the area Saturday before the attack, Owens said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/88985">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Bethany Hamilton Attacked by Shark 10/03</title>
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Bethany Hamilton was surfing at Tunnels at Makua Beach on Kauai when she was attacked by a shark about 7:30 a.m. She lost her left arm below the shoulder. Officials believed it was a 14-foot tiger shark.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89129">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Surfer Rodger Coombs was paddling out off Pohaku Park yesterday morning when he heard his friend Willis R. McInnis cry for help from about 200 yards offshore.
April 7, 2004
When he reached McInnis, Coombs realized his friend's right leg had been mangled by a shark. Coombs said he got off his board and tried to push McInnis on his longboard to shore.

McInnis told Coombs, "I think my leg is toast."

Coombs responded, "You're going to be OK, you're going to be OK."

But Coombs and other bystanders who rushed to help could not save McInnis, 57, of Napili. He died shortly after the shark bit his leg about 7:05 a.m. off Maui's western shore.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89128">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        May 10, 2003

Koa Paulo was swimming between Magic Sands Beach and Kahaluu Beach on the Big Island when he was attacked at about 12:45 p.m. by a gray-colored shark estimated at about 6 feet. Paulo had injuries to his right lower calf, ankle and foot.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89132">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Clara Alo was wading near a fishing net when she was attacked by a 4- to 5-foot gray-colored shark at Kalama Beach on Maui about 12:55 p.m. Alo received injuries to her left thigh, right knee and right index finger.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89130">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Deborah Franzman Killed by Great White 08/03</title>
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        August 19, 2003

Deborah Franzman, of Nipomo, was killed as she swam 75 yards offshore alongside a group of seals. Witnesses reported seeing a large fin as Franzman screamed for help.

Lifeguards pulled Franzman to shore, where she died. Bite marks on her legs were consistent with those seen in previous attacks by great white sharks.

witnesses claim the bite on the woman's body was a foot wide.

"Just her side was completely ripped out. She had gouges on both sides of her legs," said witness Travis Warren.

Shark expert Robert Lea, present during the autopsy, estimated the fish was between 15 and 18 feet long.

"That's incredibly large," Basti said.

An unknown species of shark was spotted in the area after the attack, Basti said.

Franzman likely bled to death after her left femoral artery was severed in the attack, Basti said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89134">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        August 30, 2000

Killed while swimming in Pinellas County, Florida. Witnesses said Kubinski had jumped into the water from the dock behind his home for his daily swim and was splashing vigorously. The shark raced toward him with its dorsal fin out of the water. He died from massive blood loss and organ damage before rescuers could get to him. The shark was estimated to be 9 feet long and weigh 400 pounds.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89135">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Tyna Webb, 77, loved nothing more than to slice through the blue sea off Jager's Walk in Fish Hoek, but on Monday her daily jaunt turned to horror when a large shark, believed to be a Great White, took her in its jaws.

On Monday at about 7am André Mentor, 48, was on the mountainside acting as a spotter for the local fishing crew when he saw the shark attack Webb.

"Every morning this woman swims the backstroke, but this morning as she was swimming the shark came to inspect and although we screamed and waved the flag trying to warn her, the shark got hold of her," Mentor said.

Other witnesses on the hill saw the shark speed towards Webb and attack her, then the sea around her fill with blood.

They said the shark had then headed out to sea and she might still have been in its jaws.

"All that was left was a little red bathing cap," said Paul Dennett, who witnessed the attack from his home nearby.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89147">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        A fifth-year medical student desperately fought off a Great White at Miller's Point on Saturday, twice managing to scare it away.

But the shark attacked Henri Murray, 22, for a third time, locking its powerful jaws around the young man.

Murray and Piet van Niekerk, 23, were spear-fishing when the shark attacked.

Henri saw the shark and warned his friend that they should get out of the water, his father, George Murray, said on Sunday.

Van Niekerk shot the shark with his speargun, but it would not let go of Murray.

On Sunday, a severely traumatised Van Niekerk took part in the search for Henri's remains.

Henri's speargun, weight belt, diving goggles, snorkel and a flippers were found on Saturday.

The top of his red wetsuit washed ashore at Muizenberg. The keys to his car were in one of the suit's pockets.

"I was always a lot more worried when Henri went rock climbing." his father said

University of Stellenbosch student Henri Murray might have had a foreboding of the dreadful fate that awaited him when he went skin-diving with his friend, Piet van Niekerk, 23.

Speaking to the media for the first time since the attack that killed his best friend, Van Niekerk said: "Henri said that day he wouldn't mind being attacked by a shark because Miller's Point is notorious for shark attacks.

"But, I think he knew his time was near. I believe God took him away," said Van Niekerk about the June 4 tragedy.

He said that when the attack happened, "I was utterly helpless, but I could hear Henri's screams clearly.

"Within 30 seconds, it was all over."

Van Niekerk said they got into the water about 14:00 and Henri, 22, speared a galjoen about an hour later.

"Minutes later, he shouted 'A Great White is here; we have to get out'.

While we were trying to get ashore, the shark jumped out of the water next to us. He disappeared under the water again.

"At first, he snapped at Henri twice, but was unsuccessful because Henri fought him off.

"The third time the shark pulled him under the water. I dived beneath the water and I saw Henri's arms in the shark's mouth," said Van Niekerk.

He rushed to get help and someone called the National Sea Rescue Institute.

Van Niekerk said: "Ten minutes later, we went looking for Henri in a boat, but couldn't find him."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89144">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Jessie Arbogast Loses Arm to Shark 07/01</title>
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As the light of a warm summer day was fading on the beach near Pensacola, Florida, Jessie Arbogast was frolicking in the knee-high water of the Gulf Island National Seashore. He had come to spend the day with his aunt and uncle, Diana and Vance Flosenzier of Mobile, Alabama, his siblings and his cousins.
Vance was on the beach when he heard someone yell, "Shark" and a scream. When he turned toward the water he saw a growing pool of blood near where his daughters and nephew, Jessie, were playing. Then he saw the 200-lb, 6 1/2 foot bull shark and it clamped it's massive jaws down on Jessie's arm. Vance ran into the water and grabbed the base of the shark's tail, essentially rendering it powerless. Thus began a life and death tug-of-war over Jessie.

On the second tug, the shark came free. Little did Vance know, that this meant the shark had severed Jessie's arm, approximately midway between the shoulder and elbow. In addition, a large piece of his right thigh was torn out. Jessie fell back into the arms of another swimmer, who essentially saved Jessie from drowning.

In the short time it took his rescuers to get him to shore, Jessie had lost so much blood that there was essentially none flowing from the gaping wounds. Jessie lost consciousness. His aunt, took beach towels and tied off his arm and leg and then began CPR on him.	
A call to 911 brought a helicopter from Baptist Flight to the scene. When the helicopter arrived with Dr. Greg Smith and paramedic Chris Warnock, who asked about Jessie's arm. At that time, no one had any idea what had happened to it. Because saving Jessie's life was paramount, they did a "scope and run" where they did not do anything procedures on the scene, but rather scoped up Jessie and ran with him to the hospital.
With the wind the helicopter fought on the way to the beach now behind them, they arrived at Baptist Hospital in just a couple of minutes. During this time, Jessie's uncle wrestled the shark to shore, where it was shot four times by local ranger Jared Klein. A volunteer fire fighter, Tony Thomas, used an expandable baton to pry open the shark's mouth with a pair of hemostats and retrieve Jessie's arm. Wrapped in moist towels and packed in ice, the arm was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
Even as they were flying, there was grave concern for Jessie. He had no pulse and was clinically dead.

With the arrival of Jessie's arm, doctors had two very complex issues in front of them. The first was obviously the most important thing and that was saving Jessie's life. He had essentially lost most of his blood and was without a pulse for almost 30 minutes. Since it was bitten of fairly cleanly, plastic surgeon Dr. Ian Rogers had a good place to start. After over 11 hours of surgery, the doctors had successfully re-attached his arm.

At this point Jessie was alive, with his arm re-attached. However, going so long without blood, there was likely to be damage to all of his organs including his brain. Although he was alive, the doctor had no idea to the extent of the damage caused by the massive blood lost.

By the beginning of August, Jessie had improved to the point where he was focusing on the objects around him. Although still not clear the extent to which Jessie is aware of things around him, he is continues to make a steady recovery. On August 12, 2001 he was released from the hospital and returned home in an ambulance.

Jessie suffered severe brain damage as a result of this attack and loss of blood.

<a href="http://www.baldwincountynow.com/articles/2009/04/15/local_news/doc49e522072ef8c628986250.txt">Read about how the boy's arm was found and reattached.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89148">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Bradley Adrian Smith, 29, died on Saturday afternoon after being "bitten in half."

Witnesses said the surfer tried to beat off the sharks, which officials said were probably great whites, although they said they could have been bronze whaler sharks.

"We saw the guy start scrambling around and saw him clinging to the shark and... trying to whack it and trying to get away," surfer Mitch Campbell said.

An ambulance officer said the victim suffered extensive injuries to the pelvis and abdomen. He died on the beach near the small fishing village of Gracetown before medical workers reached him.

A witness, who was not named, said that two teenagers who pulled the victim out of the water claimed one of the sharks was "as big as a car."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89354">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        December 2004

He was in the water with a group of people about 15m from the boat when the shark struck, a police spokesman said. Others heard the man's screams and swam to his rescue, pulling him back on board but he died shortly after from severe blood loss.

Paramedics said the man, from Clifton Beach, just north of Cairns, suffered severe cuts to his upper left leg.

"It was a very deep and major laceration," said paramedic Leon Oliveri, who was on the rescue helicopter that flew to the boat.

"With spear fishing there's blood in the water, there's also a lot of vibrations in the water from when the fish is first injured and killed," he said.

"Those sort of vibrations attract sharks in like a magnet."

Cairns police sergeant Ron Morris said the man's screams had attracted his friends' attention.

"They've made it over there ... and they've found him in the water, basically in a cloud of blood," Senior Sergeant said.

Queensland Rescue Helicopter Service spokesman Steve Ackers was one of the first to arrive on the scene, but was too late to save the man from his horrific injuries.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89363">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        November 6, 2000

Two men fought desperately to hunt away a shark as it fatally mauled a friend off one of Perth's most popular beaches today.

Local businessman and father-of-three Ken Crew, 49, died after having his leg ripped off by what fisheries officers believe to be a white pointer shark up to four metres long.

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        November 2003

Police originally said Sheldon Jee, a 21-year-old dive instructor, was presumed to have fallen victim to a shark while scuba diving off Sodwana Bay on South Africa's northeast coast Thursday. His severed left hand was all that was found.

But his diving school said Saturday he had been spear fishing at the time. They think he was attacked by a 13-foot tiger shark far from the dive sites of Sodwana, famed for stunning coral formations and tropical fish.

The fact that he was spear fishing at the time will come as a relief of sorts for the thousands of scuba divers who will descend on Sodwana over the Christmas holiday period, as sharks almost never attack divers.
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        David Peltier of Richmond was pronounced dead at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters at 3:45 a.m. Sunday.

The attack severed the main artery in his left thigh and resulted in significant blood loss, a hospital spokesman said.

David and his father, Richard Peltier, a resident of Virginia Beach, were on a sandbar about 50 yards offshore at 6 p.m. when the shark attacked. The water was only 4 feet deep.

Witnesses said the father hit the shark over the head to try to get it to release his son.

"I mean you could actually see him fighting off the shark and sort of pushing the shark away and pulling the kid," one witness said.

"There were shark bites all along his leg. It also looked like the shark might have got him right inside the thigh. He lost a lot of blood," the witness continued.

"He had two brothers who also had their surfboards and they were just standing on the beach crying hysterically."

David was taken to Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital, then to the trauma unit at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, and finally to Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, where he died.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89552">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        September 24, 2000

New Zealande Cameron Bayes was dragged off his board 50m from shore while surfing at Cactus Beach on his honeymoon.

Witnesses described the shark as approximately four to five metres in length.

Mr Bayes was on a six-month honeymoon with his wife, who is said to be in hospital suffering from severe shock.

A witness told how Mr Bayes had clambered back onto his board after being knocked off by the shark. But he was dragged under again just moments later.

"I didn't see [the shark] again until [it was] about 400 metres offshore. He came to the surface and spat the board out, thrashed around, and then just went under and was gone," the witness added.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89557">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Killed while swimming with his girlfriend in the surf off Avon, Hatteras Island, Dare County, North Carolina; his girlfriend, Natalia Slobonskaya, was severely injured in the attack but survived.

The two were swimming together near a sandbar about 20 feet from shore when they were attacked around 6 p.m., said Dorothy Toolan, a spokeswoman for Dare County Emergency Medical Services.

"They were coming in from the surf and were about 20 feet from the water's edge, according to witnesses," said Dr. Seaborn Blair, who was on call at an island medical center.

As they were wading in water that was not over their heads, both started screaming at once, witnesses told Blair.

Blair said the attack was an anomaly along the Outer Banks. "I've seen people who've been bit before by bringing sharks in on fishing lines, but I've never seen an attack in 11 years that I've been here," he said.

"I'd say the best word for it was gruesome," Blair said. "I mean it was violent. I mean, it looked bad, I mean, God a'mighty .. it's something I'll never forget, and certainly something I don't ever want to see again."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89574">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        The International Shark Attack File recorded one fatal unprovoked attack in fiji in the year 2003.

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        One fatal shark attack was recorded by the International Shark Attack File in the year 2000 in Fiji.

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        This marker represents one of two fatal shark attacks recorded by the International Shark Attack File in the year 2000.

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        This marker represents one of two fatal shark attacks recorded by the International Shark Attack File in the year 2000.

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        One fatal unprovoked shark attack was reported in New Caledonia in the year 2000 by the International Shark Attack File.

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        One fatal unprovoked shark attack was recorded by the International Shark Attack File in Japan in 2000.

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        The International Shark Attack file recorded one fatal unprovoked shark attack in 2002.

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        The International Shark Attack File recorded one fatal unprovoked shark attack in New Guineau in the year 2000.

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 A 15-year-old Kihei girl was attacked by a shark yesterday afternoon -- the second time in less than a week in which a person has been bitten by a shark in South Maui waters.

Maui police Sgt. Natalie Ching said a shark's teeth marks were visible as the girl lay on a table at the beach after she had been bitten on her right calf.

The attack happened near the shoreline in about one to three feet of murky water at Makena State Park at 4:39 p.m., Ching said.

The girl was taken by ambulance to Maui Memorial Medical Center, where she was treated yesterday evening in the emergency room.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89707">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        March 23, 2006

Liz Dunn faced her worst fear when a shark bit her leg, piercing it to the bone, while she surfed the North Shore yesterday.

"The bite was almost not the scariest part -- it was seeing the fin," a jagged dorsal fin a foot and a half wide at its base, said the 28-year-old visiting surfer from Canada. "I knew it was a big, serious shark."

Dunn was attacked shortly before 11:40 a.m. at a surf spot called Leftovers, about a mile south of Waimea Bay.

"I had just gotten the perfect wave --- one of the best waves of my life, but I rode it so far that I ended near the murky water," said Dunn.

"I felt a big bump under my board," said Dunn, who guessed it was a big rock or a turtle. She saw something move, then felt the bite on her calf.

The gray shark kept circling her, with the large fin above, then below the water, and Dunn feared the worst.

"I screamed, 'Shark, help!'" Dunn said.

"It felt like it took a taster bite," she said.

The bite left three puncture wounds near her shin. The largest was 2 1/2 inches wide and went to the bone.

Dunn admit she has a shark phobia, but she feels a little safer now knowing that statistically it is less likely she will get bitten again.

Also, "I know I don't taste good, 'cause I got spit out," she said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89708">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        A shark attacked Davis Bunn, a christian novelist, off the Melbourne Coastline, leaving him severely injured.
Like all surfers, Davis Bunn knew it could happen. He has paddled into the deep blue waters of four continents, but nothing could prepare him for the attack.
"When it hit, I didn't know if I had a foot. The pain was so intense," said Bunn.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89709">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        While adrift after the yacht he was in caught on fire and sank, he was killed by a shark in the Gulf of Mexico off of Florida on July 2, 1974.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/95212">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Aaron Seare was on his board alone near Warrnambool in the state's west when he spotted the shark about 30 meters (98 feet) away, the ABC said on its Web site.

``People say not to panic and splash around,'' he told the broadcaster. ``So I sort of sat there and waited to see what he was doing and he sort of turned around and came straight at me and that's when I did panic and paddled for the beach.''

The surfer felt a tug on his leg as he headed to shore and later found the shark had bitten through the leg rope attached to his board, the ABC said. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3797671">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Jonathon Beard, 31, bitten January 11th, 2009</title>
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        31 year old Jonathan Beard was bitten by a shark while surfing off of Dreamtime Beach, Fingal, Australia with friends.  He was hit from below and swam 70 meters to shore.  He received more than 100 stitches during surgery.  His tow rope was used as a tourniquet until he was airlifted to a hospital. 

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<title>Greg Sims, 49, bitten on January 6th, 2009</title>
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        49 year old Greg Sims was swimming with his partner Pauline Hayes around 5:30 PM when he felt a painful bite.

He and Pauline made it to shore never seeing the animal that attacked him.  He used a towel as a tourniquet and they drove to the hospital where he was treated and released.

A photo of the wound was sent to Clinton Duffy, a shark expert, who confirmed that the injury was likely inflicted by a shark.
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<title>Wellington dos Santos, 14, attacked June 1st, 2008</title>
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        While swimming beyond coral reefs that keep sharks away from swimmers 14 year old Wellington dos Santos was attacked by a shark.  His hand was bitten off and a large chunk of his buttocks was bitten off.

There are signs warning swimmers of the dangers of sharks especially beyond the coral reefs which are approximately 150 meters from the beach.

No mention was made of the type of shark behind the attack.  Wellington is reported to be in stable condition.

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        Madi Taff, 15, was bitten by a shark on June 1st 2008 while vacationing in Cherry Grove, South Carolina with her family.  She was in waist high water when a 5 foot sand bar shark, commonly referred to as a black tip shark, bit her ankle.  The puncture wounds from the bite required 16 stitches.  

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        Jennifer Cation, 35, was bitten by a shark at Fernandina Beach, FL while on a family vacation.  She was wading in chest high water with her daughter when she was bumped by the animal.  She brought her daughter to shore and realized she had been bitten.  The shark left her leg bone exposed and severed tendons.  Her husband provided first aid while waiting for medics to arrive.  She was then transported by air to a hospital.

The shark responsible for the attack is believed to be a black tip shark based on photos of Jennifer's injuries.

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http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/062508/met_294896342.shtml
http://www.mynassausun.com/taxonomy/term/577
http://www.news4jax.com/news/16667607/detail.html
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<title>Lee Mellin, 37, attacked by Great White, 11/04/2007</title>
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        The shark, believed to be a Great White, shattered Lee Mellin’s surf board and left a 38 centimetre wound down his thigh in the attack at Bonza Bay.

“I just felt its jaws sinking
in ...

“I think the shark’s teeth got stuck in the surfboard. It then took another bite, but by then I let go of my board."

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        June 22, 2005

Alysha Margaret Webster, seven, of Whitianga on the Coromandel Peninsula, was killed when attacked by a shark at a beach on Malekula Island in northern Vanuatu.

She was swimming off a beach with other people on Malekula Island in the north of the South Pacific island group when the attack occurred on Wednesday afternoon.Alysha was on a yachting holiday with her parents Grant and Sheree Webster, from Whitianga on New Zealand's North Island.They had sailed to Malekula from the Vanuatu capital Port Vila.A plane chartered on Thursday by the New Zealand High Commission flew the Websters and Alysha's body back to Port Vila.Malekula is well known for shark attacks and a number of local children have been killed over the years in similar circumstances, Port Vila Presse reported.High Commissioner Paul Willis said it was customary to check with a local chief or village to see if it was safe to swim in nearby waters."In this case, I understand there were local people around, so clearly the family might have had some reason to expect that it wasn't going to be too dangerous," he said.
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        Just minutes after Susan Dornquast and her husband posed for a picture standing knee-deep in the ocean off Garden City Beach, a 5-foot shark mauled her right calf.

Susan Dornquast was standing alone in the water after Donald Dornquast returned to shore to assist a cousin with the camera about 4 p.m. Saturday.

"I just kind of turned around to watch the ocean waves come in, and that's when the shark hit me," Susan Dornquast said Thursday from Fort Worth, Texas.

At the time of the attack, she was in town visiting cousin Barbara Wyman of Darlington.

"I felt him hit my left leg, and I seen him scurry off, and that's when I knew he got my other leg."

Dornquast said she didn't see the shark coming.

"All I seen was the bubbles from the water," she said.

Dornquast described the animal as having a grayish color.

"I didn't see a fin or nothing on the shark," she said. "It went away fast."

Dornquast said she started toward shore before falling into the water.

"I was crawling, trying to get away because I was scared the shark would come back," she said. "I never let out a big scream or nothing. I just kept yelling, 'Don, Don, Come get me! I was hit by a shark!'"

Wyman said she and Donald Dornquast could tell Susan Dornquast was distressed.

"You could tell by her face that it was something out of the ordinary," Wyman said.

Donald Dornquast ran to his wife in the water and, with the help of another man, carried her back to shore.

"I was just hoping and praying that she would have a leg," said Donald Dornquast. "Getting hit by a shark, you always hear about how they take the whole thing."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1617101">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        In the 17th attack of the year off New Smyrna Beach Joseph Fox suffered minor injuries.  He suffered 9 cuts.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2297869">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Andrew Smith, 14, who had been surfing with friends at sunset on Wednesday at "The Pipe", the western end of Strand beach, was rushed to Vergelegen Medi-Clinic in Somerset West, where he was treated for lacerations and a severed tendon.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2297872">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        A shark bit a man on the forearm Friday afternoon while he was swimming at the beach near 31st Avenue.

It was the second shark bite at that beach this year.

The 24-year-old Isle of Palms man swam out from the beach about 2 p.m., Fire Chief Ann Graham said.

"He said the shark jumped out of the water and bit him," Graham said.

The man was taken to a local hospital, and his condition was not serious, Charleston County EMS said.

Police and firefighters combed the beach, warning swimmers to stay out of the water.

"We didn't close the beach but we were advising the swimmers, and it was their decision whether they wanted to stay in the water or not," Graham said. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3733664">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        A shark bit another man in the hand June 26 while he was swimming a short distance from the beach near 7th Avenue.

The 37-year-old told authorities he was swimming in breaking waves when the shark nipped his hand. He described the shark as being nearly 5 feet long.

The man's wound didn't appear to be serious. He went to East Cooper Medical Center in a personal vehicle after declining a ride in an ambulance.

There were several shark bites reported on the Isle of Palms last year. Mayor Mike Sottile attributes the attacks to an increase in human population.

"We have more and more people coming to the beach, and you just need to be aware of your surroundings and pay attention to where you are in the water," he said.
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        24 year old Steven Fogarty was attacked by a shark in 1 meter of water while snorkeling.  He felt a nudge on his right calf.  Then he felt something pulling at him.  He fought the animal and asked for help as boaters went by.

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        Electoral court judge Gerardo Solis was bitten on his left calf Sunday near San Carlos beach.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3806743">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Achmat Hassiem, 24, and his brother and fellow lifeguard Taariq, 17, were in the water off False Bay on Sunday when Achmat spotted a shark and yelled to his brother to get into a nearby boat.

"I got in the boat. The shark turned and went straight for my brother," Taariq told the SAPA news agency. "I stuck my hand in the water to see if I could hold him. He grabbed on to my hand. We grabbed him out as fast as possible... His foot was cut clean off."

Achmat was airlifted to a local hospital, having suffered a "complete amputation of his right foot," the National Sea Rescue Institute said. He was in satisfactory condition on Monday.

The young men's father Moegsien Hassiem said Achmat had told him he believed the shark was a great white, which are common in the waters around Cape Town.

"He saw it. He was face to face with it at the bottom (of the sea)," Hassiem said. (via Reuters)

"The shark turned around and came towards me. It grabbed my ankle and shook me, then pulled me under water. I thought the game was over.

"But as I went down, I told myself, 'No, you're not going to die now', and I started kicking it.

'They saved my life'

"It had my right leg and I kicked at its head with my left leg," Hassiem said.

"I don't know how many times I kicked it, maybe four times. But I needed to get breath, I could feel I had already taken in seawater. And then it let go.

"As I came up I saw my brother's hand in the water and grabbed it.

"I looked back and saw the shark coming towards me for a second time, but the guys in the boat pulled me in before he got to me. They saved my life."

Hassiem was rushed to shore and airlifted to Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic where he had emergency surgery to his leg. He is out of intensive care but will have further surgery on Tuesday.

"I don't know how to describe what it was like," he said.

"You don't feel pain. It had my leg in its mouth but I did not feel pain. It was just, I don't know, just this brute power, this massive brute force against me, against nothing."

Hassiem is keen to go back to being a lifeguard, but knows it will be hard to train again, having to learn to swim without his foot.

"I want to go back. I'm being as brave as I can. But I struggle to sleep. Every time I close my eyes I see it all again, every detail," he said. (via <a href="http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1982897,00.html">News24</a>)

Update July 8, 2007:
Achmat Hassiem, the lifeguard whose foot was bitten off by a great white shark during a life-saving exercise at Sunrise Beach last August, has high hopes of qualifying for the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.

"I don't know yet whether I have qualified - my coach, Brian Button, is keeping it a secret - but from my swimming times I know I have one or two events in which I am among the top six in the world," an upbeat Hassiem said.

Hassiem, 25, recently returned from the National Swimming Championships in Durban where he competed against other disabled swimmers and was named "most outstanding swimmer". (<a href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=139&art_id=vn20070708100225510C150295">via iol</a>)

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        Jack Moir was catching waves at Shelly Beach at Crescent Head, when he was attacked about sunset on Tuesday evening. His ankle and leg were bitten and it is understood the predator was a bull shark or bronze whaler, the most common inshore sharks on the Mid-North Coast.

The Crescent Head Primary School student was taken to Port Macquarie Base Hospital where he underwent four hours of surgery. His family, who have just moved to Crescent Head, were too distraught to speak yesterday but friends say the youngster was "doing OK''.

A friend said Jack was keen on surfing and would often go searching for waves with his friends after school. Crescent Head surf shop owner Peter Cornish said the sharks had been seen in the area, but the last time there was an attack off Crescent Head was decades ago when the same kind of sharkattacked a man snorkelling.

"They are very intimidating fish and surfers certainly don't want to have a confrontation with them because they are pretty vicious,'' Mr Cornish said.

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<title>Joel Bacud, 39, killed November 6th, 2008</title>
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        Joel Bacad was killed by an unknown shark while fishing with his 17 year old son.  They were in waters "about three hours away" from the shore.

Joel dived into the water to examine their fishing net.  He was attacked, likely due to the presence of bloodied fish.  The shark gnawed at his back and right arm.

His son brought him to shore but he was dead by the time he arrived.

The attack occurred around 10 or 11 am.

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<dc:date>2008-11-09 14:22:50.789291+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Becky Cooke Bitten by Shark. 16 may 2007.</title>
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        Becky Cooke, 38, was wading through shallow water with her three-year-old son when a shark bit her on the left heel on Wednesday.


Speaking to the media from her hospital bed yesterday, she recalled how one of her sons came to her rescue when she was being attacked and she hit the shark with a camera to try to get it off her leg.

"As I fell into the water, the sea just turned to blood," she said.

"Browny came running over. He had his gidgee [spear] with him and I just said to him, 'Take Ethan', and he grabbed Ethan and I just said, 'Here give me your gidgee and you run back to the shore with your brother'.

"So I sat in the water while the guys come running over. I wasn't sure if it was gone or if it was going to come back.

"I took my shirt off and wrapped it around my leg."

Mrs Cooke says the water only reached below her knees when she was attacked but she did not see the shark coming.

"The pain didn't start until I got to the shore. It felt like something had hit me," she said.

"It was pretty horrific for my husband, my friends and children. My worry was for my boys, as they were with me when all this was going on."

Mrs Cooke suffered two deep lacerations on her left leg, lost most of the heel on her left foot and had to undergo an eight-hour operation to try to save it.

"If all goes well, we'll be able to save my foot and the options have been given to me that it's at that stage where I could still lose my foot," she said.




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<dc:date>2007-05-21 06:59:30.321665+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Hans Pruss Bitten by Shark. 1 May 2007.</title>
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        In the first shark attack since April 2006, a man was bitten Tuesday off a Naples beach.

Hans Pruss was swimming about 100 yards offshore from the Edgewater Beach Hotel when he felt something bump him on the left leg.

He swam to shore and saw a circular bite beginning just above the left knee and extending to mid-thigh.

“He was not in critical condition,” hotel spokeswoman Courtney Giammaria said. “After the incident, he swam to shore, and we made a call to emergency services.”

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<dc:date>2007-05-21 07:48:19.958731+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Troy Zettle, 15, bitten on July 23, 2008</title>
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        Troy Zettle was bitten by a shark on July 23rd, 2008.  He was in about 10 feet of water of off the 2700 block of North Atlantic Avenue in New Smyrna Florida when he accidentally landed on a shark.  His foot when into the shark's mouth causing deep lacerations to his foot requiring surgery.

The type of shark involved in the attack was not mentioned.
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<dc:date>2008-08-04 05:42:22.333617+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Humberto Pessoa Batista Killed by Shark 06/20/06</title>
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        Humberto Pessoa Batista, 27, was with about 30 other surfers some 50 feet from a beach in the city of Olinda when he was attacked, firefighters told the Agencia Estado news service.

Olinda is just north of the much larger city of Recife, about 1,300 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. The area is known for large concentrations of sharks. While surfing has traditionally been banned in the area, authorities lifted the restriction this year because few sharks had been seen.

Rescue workers tried to take Batista to a hospital, but the shark bite ruptured his femoral artery and he died of a hemorrhage, Agencia Estado reported. Firefighters could not immediately be reached for comment.

Batista’s death was the 18th since 1992 caused by shark attacks in the area. The sharks are attracted to waters off Recife by a large coral reef where they go to feed.
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<dc:date>2006-06-20 21:20:16.432173+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>13-Year-Old Girl Bitten. April 26, 2007</title>
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        Police have warned locals not to swim near a community jetty in northern Queensland after a 13-year-old girl was bitten by a shark.

Police said the teenager was attacked while swimming with friends in waters off Mornington Island, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, on Thursday.

The girl was airlifted to Townsville Hospital where she received treatment for injuries to her leg and foot.

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<dc:date>2007-04-30 06:19:16.19599+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Siale Havili, 41, attacked July 25th, 2008</title>
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        Siale Havili a 41 year old woman vacationing at Oahu was bitten by a shark on July 25th, 2008.  She was bitten on the arm while swimming off of Makaha.  She was able to swim to shore with her good arm and ask for assistance.

Shortly after the attack a 16 foot tiger shark was spotted about 300 yards off the shore.  However Havili's description of the shark that attacked her differs significantly from the tiger shark that was found.  Her wound also does not match what would be expected from a tiger shark.  It is believed that a different shark was responsible for the attack.

Randy Honebrink, spokesman for the state Shark Task Force said "It just goes to show that shark bites happen any time, any place, And fortunately, they're extremely rare."

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2008/07/woman-surives-s.html
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<dc:date>2008-08-05 04:24:16.812871+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Ethan Fulton, 17, bitten July 25th 2008</title>
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        On July 2th, 2008 Ethan Fulton was bitten on the ankle (presumably) by a shark.  He was surfing at New Smyrna with a friend at a location rich with bait fish.

While swimming to shore around 9 AM he felt a shark bite his ankle.  He was transported to a hospital via ambulance after his friends decided against transporting him themselves.


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http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2008/7/25/surfer_says_shark_attacked_his_ankle.html
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<dc:date>2008-08-07 05:17:33.010393+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Ryan Seacrest, 33, bitten July 26th, 2008</title>
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        Celebrity Ryan Seacrest was viciously attacked by a shark about the size of a cat and with teeth "like splinters."  The massive beast bit his toe while he was in about 4 feet of water approximately 8 feet from shore.

The shark left 3 minor puncture wounds which were treated with Advil.

The attack occurred at a beach near Los Angeles. 
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<dc:date>2008-08-07 05:28:11.615296+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Susan Levy Bitten on Foot, July 17, 2007</title>
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        Susan Levy was swimming with her husband Eric off Faria Beach, Ventura, California. This location is also referred to as Pitas Point. She was wearing a full black wetsuit with exposed hands and feet. It was 11 AM and they had been in the water 25 minutes. The sky was clear with a 1 – 3 foot ocean swell.

They were about 1/3 of a mile from shore with water visibility 1 – 2 feet. Susan recounted; “I was swimming with my husband when I felt a tug on my left foot. At first I thought it might have been my husband grabbing my foot, but then I saw he was about 10 feet away to my left. I looked around but did not see any sharks or other marine animals. We examined my foot and saw that I was bleeding but the wounds were not deep, so we swam into shore.

We went to the lifeguard station at Emma Wood State Beach; where the lifeguard gave me antiseptic cleanser for my wounds. I have 4 scrapes on the instep, ranging from 1 inch to 1 1/2 inches forming an arching shape. 

The scrape on the back of my foot, by my heel is about 2 inches long with scrapes going down.” Caution should be exercised when utilizing this location for your ocean water activities. Please report any shark sighting, encounter, or attack to the Shark Research Committee.

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<title>Harvey Miller Bitten by Tiger Shark, July 19, 2007</title>
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        All the way back to shore after an eight-foot tiger shark chomped into his left leg, Harvey Miller thought he might die.

"I just remember saying, 'Oh God, not like this, no way,"' Miller said Friday, a day after the gray animal attacked him off Oahu's Bellows Beach.

The animal came after the a 36-year-old attorney from Toledo, Ohio, in clear blue waters in an area not known for shark attacks. The last such incident in that area dates back almost 50 years, the state's Shark Task Force said.

The father of four was snorkeling and looking for turtles about 150 yards from shore when he noticed that fish near him looked spooked.

Then he saw a large shark's flat snout and felt the animal spin him around.

Speaking to reporters at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, where he was taken after the attack, Miller said he punched the shark twice right below its dorsal fin, scaring it away.

Then Miller started screaming and yelling for help and headed for shore.

A day later, he was sitting in a hospital wheelchair, tired and nauseous from the pain medicine but grateful for his doctor's estimate that he should be walking in a few months and hopefully playing basketball with his teenage son in a half-year to a year.

Dr. Patrick Murray said the shark came down on Miller's leg and knee with "tremendous" force.

 "It went right to the bone, into the bone, broke some of the bone, and into the knee joint and then removed a fairly large portion of his leg up by the knee," Murray said.

Miller has two wounds on the side and back of his left knee, one three to four inches and the other about a foot long.

Murray spent two hours operating on Miller's leg on Thursday. But said the Ohio man would need additional surgery to repair nerve damage.

Randy Honebrink, Shark Task Force spokesman, said the fish was likely looking for food when it came upon Miller. Two partially eaten dead turtles later washed ashore in the same area, showing signs of shark bites, he said.

"The only way a shark can tell if something is a potential food source is by biting it," Honebrink said.

 He said the attack was the first known shark incident in a coastal stretch from Makapuu to Kaneohe Bay since 1958. Earlier reports said the attack was the first at Bellows Beach in at least 16 years.

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        A snorkeler hunting for sand dollars 300 yards off Deerfield Beach Friday morning became the prey of a 3-foot nurse shark.

Robert Land, 39, of Deerfield Beach, said he was swimming above a school of fish, when the shark lunged forward and clamped onto his left arm.

"I had to grab him and make my way up top to get more air," Land said.

He said he spent about five minutes struggling in the water, fighting with the shark while trying to breathe, when nearby boaters noticed his distress and came over to help.

"If they weren't there, I don't think you'd be talking to me right now," Land said Friday afternoon.

But even when he was safely on the boat's deck, Land was hardly out of harm's way. The persistent shark refused to release its grip, so the boaters slit its belly -- to no avail.

"It was trying to rip my arm. Scary," Land said.

With the shark still dangling from Land's arm, the boaters raced to the nearby docks at the Boca Raton Beach Club, 900 S. Ocean Blvd., where Boca Raton Fire-Rescue workers were waiting. There, paramedics pried the shark's jaws open with wood planks and pieces of metal, Land said. They gave Land nitrous oxide to ease the pain, but he said he never lost consciousness.

Land was taken to Boca Raton Community Hospital, where he was treated and released, said hospital spokeswoman Betsy Whisman.

He said his arm is riddled with teeth marks, and now his biggest concern is infection. 

A Philadelphia transplant who has been snorkeling for 10 months, Land said he's not going to let a little shark bite keep him out of the water. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/87334">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        January 14, 2006

 A scuba diver injured in a shark attack off Perth says he wrenched his bleeding arm from the predator's jaws and hid in a crevice on the ocean floor until he was rescued.

Despite his brush with a 3.5m white pointer yesterday Bernie Williams, of the northern Perth beachside suburb of Sorrento, vowed today to continue diving - with a shark repellant.

Mr Williams was diving for crayfish when he was bitten on the left arm by the shark about 5.5km off Perth's City Beach.

"I just felt like I'd been hit by a truck on the side ... and there was a very large shark head hanging off my arm, trying to chew it," Mr Williams told ABC radio.

The predator took Mr Williams for a "bit of a ride" before releasing him to try to take another bite.

But Mr Williams pulled his hand free and shot down to the ocean floor where he hid in a crevice.

"I had a perfect view of it when it came at me the second time, and across its head would have (measured) three or four hundred millimetres," he said.

The shark made several more attempts to attack Mr Williams, disappearing into the gloom and lunging back from different directions, before the arrival of his two diving companions, including one named Brian (eds: last name so far not known) wearing a shark repellant.

"I think I was actually on the bottom hiding, and being chased around, for the best part of four or five minutes and then I ran into my buddies.

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        September 25, 2000

panic in the media and among the Australian public in general grew considerably when another fatal attack occurred in the same region only two days after the first attack. Seventeen-year-old Jevan Wright was taken by a shark while surfing with friends at Black Point, near the town of Elliston, a location 200 kilometres to the south of the attack on Mr Bayes. The close proximity (both in time and place) of the two attacks suddenly focused public attention on the possibility of a ‘rogue’ shark, one that was specifically targeting humans, such as had been portrayed in the film Jaws. In response to the two attacks in South Australia there were calls for the shark to be hunted down and killed. So great was the hysteria that the writer of Jaws felt compelled to come to the defence of sharks. He stated that the feeding habits of sharks were much better understood than when Jaws was released in the 1970’, and that rogue sharks of the type shown in the film simply did not exist.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89561">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        The International Shark Attack File recorded one unprovoked fatal shark attack in Mozambique in 2001.

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        Peller Marion, 63, of Marin County, was snorkeling Monday at Keawakapu Beach when she was attacked.

She told reporters she felt a tug on her right leg followed by a sharp pain. Marion said she turned around and saw a shark biting her leg.

After a moment of shock, Marion said she managed to swim 25 yards to shore.

Amon Aquarian helped rescue Marion, reported NBC 7/39's sister station in Honolulu. Other people at the beach came to Marion's aid, applying a tourniquet to the bleeding, mangled foot.

"Her foot was gashed open, one end to the other, long ways and the side of her leg was gashed open. It was alarming and shocking to see the gash and she held herself so well, her emotional body was so stable," said Aquarian.

"It sort of looked like a slab of steak cut to the bone. That's how it looked on the front and on the calf," Marion told the Marin Independent Journal.

Doctors at Maui Memorial Hospital operated on Marion and she is recovering with a cast on her leg.

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        13 year old Emma Klopchin was bitten by a shark on August 12th, 2008 in New Smyrna Florida.  Emma is from upstate New York and was vacationing in the area.  

Klopchin was wading in waste to chest deep water when she felt something grab on to her lower right leg.  She was treated at the scene by nurses that happened to be present until paramedics arrived.  She was transported to Burt Fish Medical Center for further treatment.

Some reports say that she underwent surgery and some say that she received 36 stitches before being released from the medical center.

This is the 16th shark attack in the New Smyrna area for 2008.

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http://www.local6.com/news/17170319/detail.html
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7191806&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
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        An Australian man has suffered "rugged" bite wounds in a shark attack while spearfishing in the Solomon Islands.

Corey Howell, who has lived in the Solomons for seven years, was diving for fish near Gizo in Western Province on Monday when a shark took three bites at him, injuring his left thigh.

The shark was attracted by the fish he caught, the Solomon Star newspaper reported today.

Mr Howell was airlifted to the capital, Honiara, yesterday and is recovering at the National Referral Hospital after undergoing surgery to patch up "a rugged wound", a hospital spokesman said.

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Sue Snyder's 9'6" longboard was struck and bit by a great white shark at Moonstone Beach in Humboldt County at about 8:15 a.m.  It was a beautiful sunny morning with a full moon setting over the horizon as we surfed. The conditions were small, but glassy and clean. There were nine of us in the water at the time. Seven of us were pretty close together, with two others about 100 yards south.

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The most fortunate part of the experience was that Sue was sitting on her board at the time of the attack. Thus, the shark did not make contact with any part of her when it bit, leaving her uninjured. We have a pretty close community of surfers here who do a good job of looking out for each other in the water, even when people are surfing solo. This was a great example where those in the water pulled together to keep each other calm and help one another. Bottom line: We know sharks are out there, and we're glad Sue (or anyone else) was not hurt in the attack.

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        a man was bitten by a shark while spearfishing off a charter boat in far north Queensland.

The 31-year-old Brisbane man was attacked by the bronze whaler on Holmes Reef, about 240km east of Cairns, about midday Saturday, an ambulance spokesman said.

He suffered a deep, 30-centimetre tear to his calf muscle.

He was treated on the boat before being airlifted by helicopter to the Cairns Base Hospital in a stable condition.

The ambulance spokesman said the man was in "good spirits".<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2191501">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-10-25 17:03:51.350345+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Surfer Killed by Shark 09/17/06</title>
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        A 34-year-old surfer has died of injuries he sustained when a shark attacked him off the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, police said on Monday.

The shark attacked him at La Pointe du Diable (Devil's Point), off the island's south coast, on Sunday morning. The local man's left arm was severed at the shoulder but he was rescued and immediately taken to hospital.

Water sports are banned at La Pointe du Diable but surfers ignore the ban to ride large waves there.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/236832">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-09-21 08:15:36.736512+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Aaron Finley, 32, atacked by shark 29 October 2007.</title>
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        32-year-old Aaron Finley was swimming in about 30 feet of water at the time of the attack. 

Maui Memorial Medical Center spokeswoman Carol Clark says the victim is in good condition. He's expected to undergo surgery and be released in a day or two.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2221629">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-10-30 17:39:01.301003+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Jodi Cooper Bitten on the Hand March 2007</title>
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        Former world ranked surfer, Jodi Cooper, survived a shark attack earlier this week. The attack left the pro surfer with deep cuts in her hand and the shark took off “a couple of knuckles” durring the mauling. The 42 year old Cooper handled the situation like a pro and even warned others in the water of the predator before recieveing first aid to her hand.

Copper, who was ranked 2nd in the world on the circuit during the eighties was surfing on South Golden Beach when the attack happened. "It just came up from underneath me and just bit me, just like in the movies, it's pretty classic, except lucky it was a small shark, a little five-foot thing," Cooper told the Australian Associated Press. "I didn't even see the thing the whole time, it just gave me a good old chomp on the hand and took a couple of knuckles." <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1616944">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-05-31 08:27:44.798804+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Mary Jane Ryan Attacked by Shark. March 14, 2007.</title>
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        "I FELT like I'd been hit by a truck . . . I knew it was something big and I knew I had to get out of there or I'd be dead. End of story."

Sporting a massive bruise to her right hand and arm and a badly gouged leg, Ms Ryan, 59, gave a graphic account of the leisurely Monday afternoon swim at Moore Park beach, just north of Bundaberg, that ended in horror.

Escaping the sweltering 38C heat, Ms Ryan had been swimming alone in chest-deep calm water at low tide when the shark struck.

"All of a sudden, bam, and I knew it was a shark," she said. "And I knew it had bit my leg and people say 'did you look around?' and it was like 'no, I just knew I had to get out of there'.

"Well, I just ran towards the beach. I started to fall because I knew I was losing blood. I was scared to death that the thing was going to come back and take another bite out of me . . . or there was a pack of them.

"I was remembering that girl that got attacked off Stradbroke and I could see the blood coming down my leg and I ran up the beach to where my towel was and I wrapped the towel around my leg.

"There was no one on the beach, so I kept running back towards the kiosk where I knew Jay (the owner) was and I was screaming 'help, help' because there was a flap on my leg that was open and you could see all the fat and muscle . . . the doctors even found some of its teeth in my bone."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1616996">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-05-31 08:32:38.938274+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Craig Evans attacked November 8th, 2007</title>
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        Craig Evans was surfing off Wategos Beach at 2.20pm on Thursday when a shark struck him from behind, knocking him off his surfboard and leaving teeth marks in his board and lacerations in his wetsuit.  The shark was believed to be a large Bronze Whaler.

This attack came only a month from when Linda Whitehurst was attacked in Byron Bay.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2305322">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-11-10 06:17:51.982927+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Surfer Tino Ramirez attacked by shark December 10th, 2007</title>
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        Tino Ramirez a surfer of 40 years was bumped by an apparent tiger shark.  He struggled with the shark as it became entangled in the leash of his surf board.

"My feeling is it bumped me and figured I wasn't food and it got tangled in my leash as it was going away," Ramirez said. "I think it was just a big mistake on the shark's part."

Given the tooth impression on the board the animal was probably a tiger shark, known to look for food at the water's surface. The muddy water caused by last week's heavy rains could have made it difficult for the animal to tell what was there.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2506804">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-12-13 05:43:46.454886+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sam Judd, Attacked by Shark December 21st, 2007</title>
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        Wellington man Sam Judd was surfing on outlying San Cristobal Island on Friday when a shark bit his thigh.

Mr Judd managed to punch the shark away but was left bleeding and in shock.

"I knew I was bleeding and I thought 'if that has another go, it's not going to be good, so I just want to get out'," he told 3News.

The type of shark behind the attack is not known.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2533503">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-12-26 08:07:33.974256+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Andrea Lynch Bitten by Bull Shark</title>
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        A college student received more than 100 stitches after being bitten by a shark in Sarasota Bay.

A shark expert said he believed the attack was by a roughly 6-foot(two-meter)-long bull shark.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1993321">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-08-20 04:49:37.828353+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Jason Noades Bitten by Shark 02/06</title>
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        February 8, 2006

ALIVE TO TELL THE TALE: Jason Noades, 15, holding up the part of his surfing suit that was torn by a shark bite on Wednesday. Noades has two bite marks on his right calf after his encounter with the shark, which has yet to be identified.

Picture: ALAN EASON

By MODISE KABELI


AN afternoon of surfing turned ugly for a Bonnie Doon teenager when he was attacked by a shark while surfing off Nahoon Beach on Wednesday.

Jason Noades, 15, made a daring escape from the jaws of a shark by kicking it with his left foot as it was trying to bite his right leg.

"I was surfing when I fell and the wave took me down. I felt something grab me on my right leg.

"Then I saw the fin, which was about 15 centimetres long, as the shark was taking me."

Noades said he kicked out with his other leg and then "I paddled faster...without even looking back."

When he was out of the water he told the lifesaver who called everybody in.

Noades has two shark-bite marks on his right calf to show for his encounter with the shark, which has yet to be identified by experts.

Noades said there were about seven other people surfing in the area when the incident happened in the late afternoon.

His friend, who was surfing a few metres behind him, also saw the shark.

Noades, who has been surfing for about three years now, said he would be returning to the water as soon as his injury is better.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89706">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-06-06 08:55:43.030328+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Little Boy Bitten by Shark. March 31, 2007</title>
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        a young boy was bitten in the right buttocks and upper leg just nearby at the Martin-St. Lucie County line.

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<dc:date>2007-04-06 17:40:16.12753+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Chaz Cecil Bitten on Foot. July2, 2007.</title>
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        A shark nipped a teenage surfer and slightly injured him before letting go, authorities said.

Chaz Cecil, 18, was bit on his right foot Thursday afternoon, according to the beach patrol.

Capt. Scott Petersohn called it a "pretty typical" bite, "A couple of small lacerations to the top of the foot."

Petersohn said the shark likely did not know what he was grabbing and when it realized, it let go.

"This was a case of mistaken identity," he said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1810843">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-07-11 07:27:25.121024+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Bob Purcell Killed by Shark 02/03</title>
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        The body of Bob Purcell, a former Commonwealth Games bowler, was discovered by kayakers after he disappeared on his regular morning swim.

Mr Purcell had suffered severe leg wounds.

The acting manager of Queensland's shark control program, Tony Ham, said the attack on Mr Purcell was consistent with a bull shark measuring more than two metres.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89672">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-06-06 07:01:53.683574+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Boy Bitten by Shark 05/31/02</title>
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        On May 31, a shark bit the left foot of a teen swimmer near St. George Island off the Panhandle in the Gulf of Mexico.

The 16-year-old boy from Birmingham, Ala., underwent three hours of surgery and was recovering well, reports stated. The teen, who was swimming with his younger brother, was about 200 feet from shore when the shark, thought to be 3 feet long, attacked. People were reportedly fishing and feeding gulls near the boys at the time of the attack.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/87331">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-29 21:40:46.723191+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Jack Miller Bitten on Arm August 20, 2008</title>
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        Bitten on forearm August 20, 2008.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3866937">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-08-24 05:31:01.799393+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Surfer Killed by Shark 2004</title>
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        I couldn't find the name of this victim or details about the incident.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89579">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-06-05 18:33:28.478983+00:00</dc:date>
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        HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina (AP) -- A 7-year-old girl from Missouri was bitten by a shark while playing in two feet of water, Beaufort County deputies said.

The girl suffered puncture wounds to her foot and buttocks in the attack Wednesday afternoon, but the injuries were not life threatening, deputies said.

Lifeguards and others on the beach first thought the girl had been stung by a stingray, but the doctor who treated her found a shark tooth embedded in her foot, authorities said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/90448">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-06-09 12:22:36.81783+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Jack Miller, 47, bitten on August 20th, 2008</title>
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        Jack Miller, 47, bitten on August 20th, 2008 off of Sanibel Island in the late afternoon.  He suffered lacerations on his forearm from the attack but they were not serious enough for him to seek medical attention.


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http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=21139&z=3
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<dc:date>2008-08-26 05:06:17.254215+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Alexander Zgura, 26, bitten on August 27th 2008</title>
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        Alexander Zgura, age 26, become the 18th shark attack victim in Velusia county on August 27th, 2008.  He was sitting on his surf board near New Smyrna beach at Ponce Deleon inlet around 11 am when a shark, estimated at 6 feet in length, grabbed his lower left leg.  

He was bitten twice and likely needed stitches.  He declined medical transport choosing to drive a private vehicle to nearby Bert Fish Medical Center.

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http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/EastVolusia/evlEAST04082808.htm<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3875666">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-08-29 05:44:21.317888+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Thomas Gold,, 20, bitten on August 28th 2008</title>
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        Thomas Gold was bitten on his left foot while surfing off of the 2700 block of New Smyrna beach on August 28th, 2008.  His wounds were superficial.  He was treated at the beach.

This bite marks the 19th attack of 2008 in Velusia county.

References:
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7315433&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3875660">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-08-29 05:35:55.4708+00:00</dc:date>
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        Jacob Shoup became the 17th shark attack victim in Velusia county for 2008 on August 24th.  The victim was bitten on the foot and required stitches.  

Reference:
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<dc:date>2008-08-29 05:32:20.315099+00:00</dc:date>
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        A 14-year-old boy suffered a bite in knee-deep water at North Topsail Beach yesterday, and witnesses and authorities say they think that it is the second shark attack in the state in two days.

Matthew Baker of Hickory was playing in the water when some people started yelling at him to get out of the water because they had seen a shark.

Baker suffered a bite on his right calf and was treated at Onslow Memorial Hospital and released, the hospital’s nursing manager, Pat Stark, said.

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<dc:date>2007-07-19 11:51:42.585546+00:00</dc:date>
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        An Ohio woman on vacation in North Carolina was bitten by a shark while wading in waist-deep water on North Carolina's Atlantic Beach.
 
It's that state's first reported attack this year.

A woman was bitten on both legs Tuesday at Atlantic Beach. She was released from the hospital and is on her way home.

Authorities say the woman was attacked. The shark bit one leg and she kicked it with her other foot, and it attacked that foot.

Bloody footprints in the sand show where eyewitnesses helped pull the 30-year-old victim out of the water Tuesday.

One woman recalled the scene.

"A woman on a blanket -- her foot and leg were bleeding," said Meg Newton, eyewitness. "They were getting families out of the water. My daughter ran to the lifeguard to tell them what happened and called 911 to tell them they had to get someone out here."

Emergency crews rushed the woman to the hospital. She has been released from the hospital and is said to be in good spirits.

Authorities said Tuesday's water conditions were ideal for sharks to be close to the shore. The water was murky.

The attack is the first shark attack at Atlantic Beach in more than a decade, but attacks are common along the N.C. coast.

Eyewitness News accompanied UNC shark experts who tag the creatures for research.

Video from Morehead City just a few years ago shows sharks, just a few feet long. Those who study them up close say they've seen some much bigger.

"Eight to nine feet Tiger Sharks," said Frank Schwartz, UNC shark expert. "Eight footWwhite Sharks -- roughly the largest one was a dusky shark about 14 feet wide. It filled up the whole back of the boat."

Authorities believe the shark that attacked the woman was about five feet long, based on the bite marks on both of her legs.

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        Quentin Gorrell, age 43, was bitten by a bronze whaler shark while trying to free the fish from their fishing nets.  The fish nearly took off one of his fingers.  

While making the trip back to the mainland for medical attention the fishing vessel got stuck on the seabed and began to tip.  The crew prepared for the vessel to overturn and Mr. Gorrell was escorted to the mainland in a police dinghy.

His injuries required surgery.

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<dc:date>2008-09-22 11:15:27.442389+00:00</dc:date>
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        A man surfing near Newcastle has survived a shark attack that sliced open a "very large flap of skin" on his right buttock, a rescuer says.

The man, who was not identified by name, was bitten by what was believed to be a bull shark.

A recent news story names the victim as Ben Morcom.  The story identifies the shark as a great white.

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<dc:date>2007-12-18 11:14:27.981179+00:00</dc:date>
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        Cliff Zimmerman was only three feet away from Randy Fry, his old friend and diving partner, when he heard a noise and felt the pressure of something big moving by.

It was a shark, and it came out of nowhere, it came fast, and it killed his partner.

"I heard a noise, like 'whoosh,' like a submarine, like a boat going by fast. It was a shark,'' Zimmerman said. "I knew it was a shark. It almost brushed me. I saw its dorsal fin. I don't know what kind it was; all I know is, it was big. Big. It was big enough to kill.''

The shark struck Fry, and suddenly, Zimmerman said, the water was filled with blood. "It was massive,'' Zimmerman said. "I was yelling and yelling, but I knew from the amount of blood that it was fatal.

"He came in for the kill.''

It was over in an instant; no one saw the shark again, and no one saw Fry again. All this happened on Sunday afternoon, in water 15 feet to 20 feet deep, just 150 feet from the shore of a cove used by lumber schooners years ago, a place noted for abalone beds.

"It was terrible,'' Zimmerman said Monday, a day after the attack. "I almost had a heart attack myself. It could have been me.''<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89576">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Surfer Todd Endris, 24, Attacked by 12 Foot Great White</title>
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        On 8/28/2007 Todd Endris was attacked by a 12 foot great white shark while surfing at Marina State Beach in Monterey Bay, CA.  

Endris suffered bite wounds to his torso and right thigh, and underwent surgery at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
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<dc:date>2007-08-30 05:59:10.113535+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Stephen Perkins, 52, bitten on August 31st, 2008</title>
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        Stephen Perkins, 52, became the first person to be bitten by a shark of the UK coast.  He was fishing and landed a blue shark.  He pulled the shark into the boat for a photograph before returning the fish to the ocean.  The fish bit into his forearm causing deep puncture wounds.  Stephen lost enough blood that it was necessary to air lift him via helicopter to a hospital where he underwent reconstructive surgery.

References:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/01/eashark101.xml<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3881084">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-09-01 15:52:24.505376+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Joe Giangrasso, 18, Bitten on April 3rd, 2008</title>
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        18 year old Joe Giangrasso was bitten by a shark off of New Smyrna beach on April 3rd, 2008.

The shark, which he described as too big to his arms around, took a chunk out of his foot.  The shark left a deep 5 inch laceration near his ankle.

Sources:
http://www.wptv.com/content/breakingnews/story.aspx?content_id=d925e05d-050b-4dfa-84f6-9fc818435975
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/frtHEAD04040408.htm<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3003976">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-04-04 05:19:10.999241+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Kayaker unhurt in attack, July 21, 2007</title>
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         A man kayaking on the San Mateo County coastline this weekend survived a great white shark attack that ejected him into the water and left his kayak with bite marks.

James Nothhelfer, a lifeguard peace officer with California State Parks, said kayakers reported the attack near Bean Hollow State Beach to him Saturday afternoon, "a couple of hours after the fact."

According to reports on the NorCal Kayak Anglers Web site, a kayaker identified only as "Dan" was tossed out of his kayak in the skirmish with a great white shark. He managed to scramble back inside his boat, even as the shark gnawed on his kayak, according to a posting by an eyewitness.

Fellow kayaker Steven Lam wrote on the group's Web site that the shark's bite marks on the upper bow of the kayak were probably 20 inches in diameter and "big enough to swallow a watermelon. Some of the teeth marks actually punctured through the plastic."

The kayaker himself emerged uninjured, Nothhelfer said.

At this time of year, white sharks tend to spend more time in shallower waters, said Carrie Wilson, a marine biologist with the state's Department of Fish and Game.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1932607">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-08-02 09:09:09.262284+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Snorkeller Killed by Shark 02/04</title>
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        A snorkeller died of blood loss after being bitten by a shark in Coral Bay, Sharm, Egypt at the weekend.

The Egyptian man was snorkelling close to shore with a group of holiday-makers on Saturday 14 February when the attack happened.

The injured man made it back to shore and was taken to hospital where he later died of shock due to blood loss.

A member of South Sinai Divers Association (SSDA) confirmed the details of the incident. "This is a one-off attack, and the last incident in Egypt was 6 - 7 years ago and was widely reported." <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89368">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-06-05 07:01:31.078179+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>ROJ Court 84 - Shark Attack</title>
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        ROJ Court 84 - Shark Attack<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3890863">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-09-07 22:29:18.616073+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Ashley Silverman Bitten on the Arm, August 7, 2007</title>
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        "I jumped in the water just to go for a swim and next thing you know, I came up and I was covered in blood," shark bite victim Ashley Silverman said.

Silverman said she was just trying to cool off when the shark went on the attack.

Someone pulled her out of the water before the shark tried to strike again.

The attack happened Tuesday at Bud N' Mary's Marina in Islamorada.

Silverman was airlifted to Baptist Hospital in Kendall and underwent surgery on her arm Wednesday.

Silverman and her boyfriend, both from Jacksonville, were vacationing in the Keys.

"I jumped in the water and then I just felt it snap on my arm," she said. "It was quick, really quick. Then I just felt my hand and felt my bone. I saw my bone. There were pieces of my flesh in the water. Muscles were like, oozing out. It was really gross."

The 19-year-old's boyfriend jumped to her rescue.

"As soon as she said, 'Baby, help me,' were the first words out of her mouth, I just jumped in the water and tried to snatch her onto the boat as fast as I could," boyfriend Christopher Wood said. "I helped the guy put the tourniquet on her arm and, I mean, blood was just everywhere."

Doctors said Silverman was lucky she did not lose her right arm. They said she now faces six to 12 hours of reconstructive surgery.

"She has a large piece of tissue that's missing," Dr. Randy Miller at Baptist Hospital said. "Inside contained in that tissue are nerves, blood vessels and tendons, as well as the coverage on the outside of the arm."

No one saw the shark, but based on the bite, Miller said he believes it was a 10- to 15-foot shark.

"The reason we think it was a shark is because shark's teeth face inward," he said. "So, when a shark bites and the shark doesn't let go and it wiggles its head or the person tries to pull away from the shark, usually that tissue just gets ripped right out of the patient. And that's exactly what happened in this case."

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<dc:date>2007-09-07 10:29:58.56149+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Blaise Castellano Jr. Bitten by Shark 10/2006</title>
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        Blaise Castellano Jr. went to Florida's east coast hoping to catch a big one. Instead, a big one caught him.

The Lemon Bay High School sophomore was bitten by a shark during a surfing and fishing trip to Sebastian Inlet this week.

"It was pretty crazy," Blaise said Friday. "I guess the shark thought my foot was a mullet. Then it was gone.

"There was blood everywhere."

The shark left three 5-inch lacerations in the boy's shin, 10 small puncture wounds in the bottom of his foot and one large hole in his heel.


With Charlotte County schools closed Monday and Tuesday, Blaise and several friends decided to go to the beach to celebrate one buddy's birthday.

"I wouldn't call it a shark attack; I would just call it a shark bite," said Randy Fogo, the birthday boy's father and the one who drove Blaise to the hospital.

When Blaise returned to school Thursday, everyone knew about the bite.

Freshmen he had never met and students behind him in the lunch line pointed him out, he said.

Because so many people asked about the injury, Blaise put photographs of the bite on his MySpace.com Web page.

Blaise has to use crutches for two weeks and stay off his right foot completely, he said.

Within six weeks, he'll be back to running and skateboarding.

"I did a pretty good number for getting my first stitches," he said. "It's a good story." <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/793611">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-10-31 07:02:12.344769+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Taylor Smith 27, Joseph Coursey 56, Attacked</title>
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        Avid surfers such as Taylor Smith and Joseph "Jody" Coursey know that riding the waves near Ponce deLeon Inlet means risking an encounter with a shark. They see the sharks regularly.

The area has earned the reputation of being the "shark-bite capital of the world."

Smith and Coursey became part of that history last weekend as Volusia's 11th and 12th shark-attack victims for the year.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2036413">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-09-03 12:09:19.220358+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Zane Atcha, 6, bitten on leg, May 7th, 2008</title>
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        A shark approached a group of about 12 children in 3 foot water on a beach near 27th Ave in New Smyrna Beach, FL.

Zane Atcha, 6 years old at the time, was bitten on the leg.

"(Zane) came running up to me, screaming and pointing at his leg," Zane's mother said. "I could see the gash in the back of his leg."

Unlike several recent bites, Zane was bitten miles away from the inlet. Beach officials said it is a sign that sharks are actively combing the coast.

References:
http://www.local6.com/news/16187329/detail.html<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3121724">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-09 04:59:29.090673+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Jason Cult, 30, bitten on May 10th, 2008</title>
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        Jason Cult was attacked by a shark at Middleton Beach near Albany Australia on May 10th, 2008.

Some reports report the shark as being a white tipped shark and others report it as a great white.  In a report saying the shark was a great white the size of the shark was estimated at 5 meters.

Jason fought off the shark by poking it in the eye.  Joanne Lucas swam out to assist Jason and brought him to shore.  Jason underwent surgery and lost most of his calf but will recover.

References:
http://www.pr-inside.com/man-survives-shark-attack-in-australia-r582467.htm
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/Story/tabid/209/articleID/55477/cat/41/Default.aspx
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/1947040/Shark-attack-man-saved-by-mother-of-three.html
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<dc:date>2008-05-12 07:06:18.328155+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Todd Murashige, 40, attacked on September 9th, 2008</title>
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        Surfer Todd Murashige, 40, was bitten twice by a shark off the East coast of the island of Oahu, Hawaii.  The attack happened on September 9th 2008 at about 5 PM 300 yards from shore near Kahana Bay in Ka'a'awa.  

The victim was bitten on the calf and right thigh and lost a lot of blood.  He was transported to Queen's Medical Center and is listed in serious condition.  It is unclear at this time if he will lose his leg.

References:
http://www.khon2.com/home/ticker/28226424.html
http://www.kitv.com/mostpopular/17436889/detail.html
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080911/NEWS25/809110352/1318/LOCALNEWSFRONT<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3896631">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-09-11 04:50:22.588274+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>7 year-old Boy Bitten, August 25, 2007</title>
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        Saturday, beach patrol officers in New Smyrna Beach learned of a boy's shark bite 7 minutes after it happened.

"We didn't know right away," Volusia County beach patrol Officer Scott Petersohn said. "We eventually got it through Central. But, I've looked at all of the ... reports and there was a time lag from the time the call was taken to the time we were actually notified. Fortunately, it wasn't a terrible call. It was not life-threatening."

Someone dialed 9-1-1 after the boy was bitten and was transferred to the Regional Communications Division dispatch center, which covers emergency calls in the southern part of Volusia County.

The time lag occurred when the communications center delayed in contacting the Central Dispatch Center which is responsible for notifying northern cities and the beach patrol.

Dispatchers said they will now use pagers to immediately reach beach patrol officers in case of an emergency.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2054804">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-09-07 10:56:37.372348+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Geoffrey Brazier Eaten by Shark 03/05</title>
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        March 19, 2005

A 20-foot shark tore Geoffrey Brazier in half as he was snorkeling off Australia's west coast, police said Sunday. 

Geoffrey Brazier, a pleasure boat deck hand who was snorkeling with tourists, died instantly in the attack Saturday afternoon off the Abrolhos Islands.

"The 26-year-old man was bitten in half by the 20-foot animal and death seemed to be instantaneous," said Putland, adding that the man's body so far has not been recovered. 

The species of shark is not yet known and it was not clear how many people were in the water with the victim at the time of the attack. No one else was injured. 

Area residents have speculated that a great white shark or tiger shark is responsible. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89352">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Shark attack</title>
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        Shark (Great white as presumed) attacked Slovenian diver on Croatian cost.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3984868">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-10-07 00:19:10.716379+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>John Marrack Bitten by Shark 06/03</title>
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        June 24, 2003

The dolphins must have known something bad was about to happen.

John Marrack and his wife, Stephanie, were swimming among a pod of 30 to 40 dolphins at around 8 a.m. yesterday about 50 yards off Makua Beach, celebrating John's birthday.

"It happened so fast," John Marrack said. "We were with quite a large pod of dolphins and then they just took off like rockets."

An instant later, what is believed to be a great white shark hit John Marrack.

"It just came out of nowhere," said Stephanie Marrack, 54.

"I didn't see it, but John said it was at least 5-foot- wide and silver. John was right in front of me, and all of a sudden I see this 4- or 5-foot geyser come out of the water — it just went whoosh! And then John said, 'Steph, I've been bit.' "

John Marrack said he felt something grab his foot and tug it.

"I felt, like, sharp pricks, but it wasn't painful," he said. "Then I looked around underneath and ... I saw this big, silvery animal down there."

Although he knew he was hurt, his injuries weren't his only concern. He immediately thought about his wife's safety. "My job was to keep between her and the shark," he said.

The couple began to swim to shore when John Marrack realized the extent of his wounds.

"I saw a flap of skin floating around," he said. "There was a boat right there, so I asked them for help and they did a great job."

As luck would have it, Victor Lozano, owner of Dolphin Excursions Hawai'i, was in the area and hauled Marrack aboard his 33-foot rigid inflatable boat, Naia 1.

"There was blood all over that boat," said Lozano. "You could see it was a bite and a release. They were good-sized tooth marks — an inch to in excess of an inch. I had to administer first aid and wrap him up to stop all the bleeding.

"The guy was actually a really a cool customer. ... He was coherent and able to talk to me while I was bandaging him up.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/89131">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Chris Olstad, 52, bitten by shark</title>
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        Authorities say Chris Olstad was swimming his usual route from Founder's Park to a sailboat about a half mile off shore and back when he was struck in the side.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1996314">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Matt McIntosh Pulled from Boogey Board, 02/07</title>
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         A SURFER bitten by a shark while riding a wave off the NSW north coast earlier today is recovering in hospital.	

The 26-year-old man's lower left leg and foot were lacerated in the attack off Shelly beach, near Ballina, a Lismore Base Hospital spokesman Robin Osborne said.

"As I understand it he was actually bitten on the lower leg," Mr Osborne said.

He said doctors would keep the man in hospital overnight and assess his injuries in the morning.

"He managed to raise the alarm with his friend, he swam towards shore, got back onto his boogie board and his friend came in and then went out and actually assisted him back into the beach," Inspector David Driver said.

Paramedics who airlifted the man for treatment at Lismore Base Hospital said his friends were initially unaware of the attack.

"He was catching a wave when the shark bit him ... he didn't see the shark at all," Westpac Rescue Helicopter pilot David Milnes said.

"His mates didn't even know what happened."

Mr Milnes said the surfer was conscious and talking during the flight to hospital.

No one seems to have seen the shark to identify its size or species. 

He was dragged off his board and underwater as the shark tore through the soft flesh of his calf.

Matt suffered severed ligaments, tendons and nerves before teeth hit the bone in his lower leg.

Doctors have told him he may not get any feeling back on the sole of his foot.

"It just hit me like a sledge-hammer," he said.

"Then I couldn’t feel my leg."

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<title>Eric Nerhus Fights off Shark, 01/07</title>
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        Eric Nerhus, 41, was diving off the New South Wales south coast today when the 3m shark seized him head on, crunching on his head, shoulders and chest, he told friends later.

Protected from the worst of the shark's bite by a lead-lined weight vest, the diver stabbed and clubbed at the creature's head and eyes with an abalone chisel until it spat him free.

The shark's bite crushed Mr Nerhus's reinforced face mask, broke his nose, and shredded his wetsuit.

With blood pouring from deep wounds to his head, chest and back, Mr Nerhus surfaced off Cape Howe, near Eden, to be pulled aboard a boat by his son Mark, 25.

Suffering blood loss and shock, he was flown to Wollongong Hospital, where he was stable and conscious tonight, telling friends of his miraculous escape.

"He was actually bitten by the head down, the shark swallowed his head," said fellow diver and friend Dennis Luobikis.

"I think Eric's the first professional abalone diver that's actually survived a white pointer attack," added Mr Luobikis, 52.

"Eric is a tough boy, he's super fit.

"But I would say that would test anyone's resolve, being a fish lunch.

"He'd have a better chance of winning the lotto (than surviving that attack), and I think he would have rather done that."

Mr Nerhus was searching for abalone in weedy, murky waters nine metres deep.

"He come up to the surface, he was going: `Help. Help there's a shark, there's a shark'," son Mark Nerhus told TV networks.

"I went over and there was a big pool of red blood and I pulled him out of the water and he was going: `Just get me to shore, get me to shore'."

Divers in a nearby boat gave first aid and one radioed his father, who was flying overhead in a spotter plane, to call for emergency help.

The Snowy Hydro Rescue Helicopter arrived shortly after 11.10am and airlifted Mr Nerhus to Wollongong Hospital, where he may undergo surgery as early as tomorrow for his injuries, a spokeswoman said.

But tonight, Mr Nerhus was sitting up and talking about his experience and was in a stable condition, the spokeswoman said.

Doctors said the shark had "taken the diver completely into its mouth".

But Mr Luobikis said Mr Nerhus' weight vest had probably saved his life.

All divers need lead to submerge but abalone divers use a lead vest rather than a weight belt.

"We've always felt (the vest) would probably help us in a shark attack and this is the first time we've had it confirmed," Mr Luobikis said.

There had been a rash of white pointer sightings in recent weeks thanks to unusually cold waters off Eden, but such an attack was unheard of, Mr Luobikis said.

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<title>Osvaldo Mata Valdovinos, 21, killed by shark on May 24th, 2008</title>
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        Osvaldo Mata was surfing with friends when he was attacked him.  He hand was bitten off and the shark took two chunks of flesh from his thigh.  The bites to his thigh broke his femur and left a 30 cm laceration.

The type of shark was not mentioned in the news articles.  Witnesses said the shark was approximately 2 meters in length.
References:
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2430753720080524<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3145735">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-28 06:24:58.448496+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Hannah Mighall, 13, bitten on January 11th, 2009</title>
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        13 year old Hannah Mighall was bitten on the leg by a 5 meter great white shark (white pointer) at Binalong Bay while surfing.

Her older cousin, 33, came to help her.  Together they punched the shark until they were able to get to shore.  At one point they caught a wave but the shark was in the same wave.  Witnesses said the shark followed them to shore.

She was bitten three times before making it to shore.  The shark tried to pull her under and succeeded a couple of times.

References:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24900693-5006788,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/13/australia-sharks-attack-three-24-hours<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4299536">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2009-01-13 05:20:14.674422+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>9-Year-Old Surfer Girl Bitten by Shark. June 17, 2007.</title>
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        A 9-year-old St. Johns County girl was apparently bitten by a shark Sunday while surfing north of the St. Augustine Inlet at Vilano Beach.

The girl walked to her home nearby and was taken to Flagler Hospital by St. Johns County Fire Rescue, said department spokesman Jeremy Robshaw.

The name of the girl was not released.

Robshaw said the attack happened about 4:30 p.m. when the girl was surfing in the 3800 block of Coastal Highway.

He said he did not know where the bite was located.

"We've had a couple of other instances of bites [this year], but this is the first one that appeared to be a shark bite," he said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1724364">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-06-19 11:21:15.847524+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Shark Attacks Multiple Kayakers</title>
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        While kayaking a 14-15 foot white pointer shark attacked multiple people.  The shark bumped a dinghy that some fisherman were in.  The fisherman alerted kayakers of the danger but the shark knocked 29 year old Steve Kulcsar into the water.  The fisherman and kayakers frightened the shark off by hitting it with the propr of their boat.  No one was injured in the incident.

This attack happened on the same day that Brian Guest was believed to be killed by a shark in the same area.

References:
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=911042<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4261451">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2009-01-01 14:57:39.276105+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Chase Crawford Bitten by Shark, August 9, 2007.</title>
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        Chase Crawford turns 10 next weekend. While he has been alive less than one decade, this week he has experienced more than most every adult.
 
After hours of bogey-boarding with his dad and brother Thursday, they headed towards shore.
 
“I felt something bite me and I yelled dad and I could not pull my leg out of his mouth,” Chase explained.
 
“What were you thinking? What were your first thoughts?” reporter Meryl Conant asked.
 
“I hope I don't die,” he responded.
 
“I look down and I see this tail fin thrashing around his legs and I knew what it was,” said Chase’s father, Phillip Crawford.
 
“It was a mix between dull and sharp pain and blood,” Chase explained.
 
“It was just like a nightmare when you see that as a parent,” Phillip added.
 
For Phillip and Diane Crawford, the next six hours were filled with bated breath as Chase underwent surgery.
 
“When they said a full recovery is expected we could exhale for just a moment,” Diane explained.
 
Chase is expected to head home on Wednesday but will spend the next few weeks on crutches.
 
He used to love going into the ocean with his dad but he says he does not think he ever will want to go in again.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2054788">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-09-07 10:22:48.491613+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Chris Kelly Circled by Shark, Oct 4, 2007</title>
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        Chris Kelly thought it was a bit odd that a big rock began moving toward him as he surfed near the Cayucos Pier along California's Central Coast. Then he heard people on the shore began yelling -- "Shark! Shark!"

Kelly quickly began paddling to shore as shocked beachgoers watched the Great White begin to circle him.

“My biggest feeling wasn’t fear; it was confusion,” Kelley told the San Luis Obispo Tribune. “It was more like a big rock that wasn’t supposed to be moving.”

Kelly was able to safely get to shore, but the close call raised anxiety of surfers along the coast after earlier attacks in Marina near Monterey and in the waters off Humboldt County.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2124642">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-10-09 10:10:09.32893+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Shark Stalks and Attacks Raft</title>
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        Two lifeguards were forced to dash to the safety of shore after their inflatable boat was attacked and punctured by a huge shark.

Lauren Johnson, 19, who was on board, said the encounter at Omaha Beach, north of Auckland, was "just like Jaws".

"It had 'kill' on its mind," she said of the shark, which is thought to have been a bronze whaler.

Ms Johnson and fellow lifeguard Kris O'Neill, 24, had been sent to investigate sightings of a shark off the beach at 2pm yesterday.

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<dc:date>2008-01-17 10:23:55.793376+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Brain Guest, 51, killed on December 27th 2008</title>
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        While snorkeling with his son Brian Guest was presumably attacked and killed by a 14 foot shark off the coast of Port Kennedy Australia.  The attack occurred on Saturday December 27th 2008.

The sources do not definitively say that he was killed by a shark but it seems likely.


References:
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212196197.shtml
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/27/Friends_say_shark_attack_victim_knew_risks/UPI-28931230417133/<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4261434">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2009-01-01 14:53:07.438471+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Unidentified Man Recieves Minor Bite by Small Shark, Feb 6, 2008</title>
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        A surfer across from Patrick Air Force Base's main entrance off state Road A1A suffered an apparent shark bite on Wednesday, witnesses said.

The man, who was not identified, refused treatment.

Jon Humphrey, 33, told Local 6 News partner Florida Today that he and a friend paddled out about 50 to 100 feet off the beach when another surfer near them began shouting, "Shark!"

"punching a shark that was on his foot."

"He got onto the beach and was holding his foot," said Humphrey, who along with his friend grabbed a T-shirt and wrapped the man's foot. He said the wound appeared to be bad enough to require stitches.

The water "blew up" around him, Humphrey said. He slipped off his board and went to shore. Humphrey said the shark appeared to be about 3 feet long.

"I think I'm done here for the day," Humphrey said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2774562">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-02-12 10:48:30.342799+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Turua William Maretapu Bitten by tiger shark, 4 March 2007</title>
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        A northern Cook Islands boy is lucky to be alive after being bitten on the leg by a Tiger shark.

The Cook Islands Times says 16-year-old Turua William Maretapu was swimming over the reef into the lagoon at Penrhyn after spearfishing.

He spotted the shark and fired at it.

The shot missed and the shark bit his leg.

The newspaper says luckily others were on the reef nearby and helped him.

They included his uncle, who had been trained in first aid by the Red Cross.

The Cook Islands Times said Turua was rushed to hospital, where the doctor said the first aid probably stopped him bleeding to death.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1004612">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-03-05 18:39:06.814054+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Driver, 49, from Austria Killed</title>
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        A 49-year-old Austrian man has died after being attacked by a shark while diving off the coast of Florida, Austria's foreign ministry said Monday.  

The attack occurred 30-50 miles east of Fort Lauderdale.  Some sources say 30 miles some say 50.  

The website nullzeit.at reports that the victim was on a shark-baiting expedition when he was attacked by a bull shark.  Other sources say that the shark species was not known.

The man suffered severe injuries and later died at a hospital in Miami.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2841986">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-02-26 06:32:20.118721+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Woman Bitten by Shark, Sept 22, 2007</title>
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<title>Baileigh Foster, 14, Bitten by Shark July 9, 2008</title>
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        Baileigh Foster was swimming in waist-deep water when she was bitten in the foot around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

A doctor at Cartert General Hospital, where Baileigh was treated, said she suffered lacerations consistent with those inflicted by a shark bite.

Baileigh said she had never thought a shark would attack her.

"It did, and I was surprised, but it's just one out of a million chances," Baileigh said.

She underwent surgery to repair ligament damage and was released from the hospital on Friday.

Doctors said they expect Baileigh to make a full recovery in time for her to play on her high-school soccer team this fall.

Baileigh said she will not be afraid to go swimming in the ocean again – but does not plan to swim at dusk again.

Shark attacks are more frequent in the early morning and evening when sharks are feeding in the dim light.

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<dc:date>2008-07-18 12:15:33.736235+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Dr. David Martin Killed by Great White, April 25, 2008</title>
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        Solana Beach, CA April 25, 2008 2:00 PM - - The City of Solana Beach emergency crews were called to respond to a possible shark attack at approximately 7 a.m. this morning.  Both Fire and Lifeguard Rescue Services arrived at Tide Park to assist a 66-year-old male victim, Dr. David Martin, who was pulled from the surf by fellow swimmers and transported to Fletcher Cove Park Lifeguard station for emergency treatment.

“We are all stunned and deeply saddened by this rare accident,” said Joe Kellejian, Mayor of Solana Beach. “Dr. Martin was a good man, an expert swimmer and one who knew these waters well.  We wish his family well during this difficult time.”

Longtime Solana Beach resident, since 1970, and triathlete, Dr. David Martin succumbed to injuries brought about by a shark bite and was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:49 a.m.  His injuries were reported to be several deep wounds to the legs. Dr. Martin was a retired veterinarian and expert swimmer who has been training with the Triathlon Club of San Diego (TCSD) out of Solana Beach for the past three years.  There were nine swimmers in training, and Dr. Martin was in the middle of the group.

TCSD, comprised of expert swimmers, has been training on the same four mile route for the past four years.  They usually swim in groups at approximately 150 yards off shore, using a buddy system whereby if a swimmer needed to go back to shore for safety, another swimmer would accompany them. TCSD have never experienced a shark attack. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3110331">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-05 08:21:16.80645+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Adrian Ruiz, 24, attacked on 4/28/2008</title>
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        Adrian Ruiz, an american surfer, was attacked and killed by a grey shark on Monday 4/28/2008.

The shark bit into his right leg exposing the femur.  Adrian was alive when brought back to the beach but likely died from blood loss waiting for emergency vehicles.  The victim's companion drove him to a hospital after growing frustrated over the length of time it was taking for emergency personnel to arrive at the beach.


References:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/29/shark.attack.ap/?iref=mpstoryview
http://www.surfline.com/surfnews/surfwire.cfm?id=15106<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3119559">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-08 06:40:30.271575+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Bruce Grimes, 49, bitten May 24th, 2008</title>
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        Bruce Grimes, 49, was bitten by a shark Saturday in Playa Linda, a beach in the southern state of Guerrero .

The victim suffered minor injuries on his hand and went on his own to a Naval Hospital for treatment.

A witness to that attack said the man was sitting on his surfboard when the shark bit his hand and then pulled him underwater.

References:
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/16389949/detail.html
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1612014/<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3145724">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-28 06:10:27.496637+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Juan Rodrigues Galvao de Franca, 14, bitten on June 11th 2008</title>
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        Juan Rodrigues Galvao de Franca, a 14 year old surfer was attacked on Wednesday June 14th 2008 by an unidentified shark.  The shark bit the boys leg.  He managed to free himself from the shark and swam to shore where a passing ambulance assisted him.

The attack occurred off of Del Cifre beach in Pernambuco state in an area that is off limits to bathers and surfers due to high frequency of shark attacks.  The area is well known to be shark infested and is also well posted.

References:
http://www.globalsurfnews.com/news.asp?Id_news=34664<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3644568">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-06-13 14:29:57.276801+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Renata Foucre Bitten Posing for Underwater Coffee Table Book 10/25/2006</title>
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        26-year-old San Francisco mermaid Renata Foucre, has 22 puncture wounds on her left foot and a prescription for antibiotics to prove it.

And a colleague, Boca siren Missy Kehoe, found a 6-foot shark entangled in the fishnet costume she wore for her pictorial. That beast found its way out without hurting her.

"I'm not sure I'll ever do that again," Foucre said. "The shark definitely clamped down. There are bruises around each puncture wound, lined up from my toes to the ankle.

"I'm lucky he didn't thrash after he got me."

Foucre's mistake, said Nassau shark specialist David Eads, was to wear a flowing nightgown covered in sequins that sparkled like silvery small fry on a clear morning.

"The shark thought she was dinner but didn't like what it had bitten into," said Eads. "This was just a nibble."

The pictures connected to this post are from the photo shoot in question. The one with the big, white belly of the reef shark looming over the shoulder of the model is Renata, taken about four seconds before the shark bit her.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/793567">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-10-31 07:02:53.161812+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Olivia Hislop, 20, fought off two attacks on December 9th, 2007</title>
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        Unfortunately many details are missing from the source article.  The article is not clear but it sounds as though a shark attacked her surf board twice in ten minutes.  I'm a bit skeptical of this report as the victim claims that she tried to catch a wave after the first attack.  

"She says she tried to catch another wave after the first attack, but the shark attacked again when she put her legs back in to the water.

"I felt a tugging on the back of my board and I looked behind me to find this big shark staring back at me.

"But it was all a bit quick - I just saw a head chomping behind my board and then, the next minute, its big tail in my face."
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<dc:date>2007-12-12 06:18:45.726875+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Shark Expert Bitten 04/09/02</title>
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        Dr. Erich Ritter, chief scientist for the Princeton, New Jersey-based Global Shark Attack File, was bitten in the calf by what was believed to be a 350-pound (159-kg) bull shark during filming of a Discovery Channel program off Walker's Cay, Bahamas, on Tuesday.

"It was a serious injury," said Marie Levine, executive director of the Shark Research Institute in Princeton. "He's going to be in the hospital for four or five more weeks."

Ritter, 43, was bitten in murky, waist-deep water as he worked with lemon, black-tip and bull sharks for the television program, Levine said.

It appears the bull-shark was chasing a remora, a smaller fish, and bit Ritter by accident.

"There was food in the water about 15 yards (14 meters) from Erich. A bull shark closed on the remora but in the low visibility bit Erich instead," she said.

The shark's teeth went to the bone and Ritter was rushed to a hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he underwent an arterial graft and possibly a skin graft on the calf wound, she said.

"They were really pushing the envelope," Levine said. "This is one of those things that can happen when you're working with big animals and it was an accident."

But Dr. Sam Gruber, a University of Miami shark expert who worked with Ritter in the 1990s, said Ritter's methods were not accepted by the scientific community and called him "an accident waiting to happen."

"He has been getting more and more fearless, or some would say bold. This method is basically to titillate TV cameras," Gruber said. "He wants to impress people that he can control these sharks and they will never bite him."

Gruber said Ritter believed his study of the marine predators had made him immune to shark bites and called his methods damaging to those trying to do "legitimate" research on sharks.

"He believes he can read the minds of sharks and that he knows everything about shark behavior so he can predict what they are going to do," Gruber said. "Those predictions will never be accurate enough to say 'this is what will happen 100 percent of the time.'"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/87333">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-29 21:53:03.249217+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Kameron Brown, 24, possibly eaten August 30th, 2008</title>
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        24 year old Kameron Brown of the Pahoa Hawaii was lost at sea.  He tried to climb some rocks in rough surf.  Fishermen nearby tried to help him by throwing him ropes but Kameron never made it to shore.  This happened in the evening, around 7:20 PM.  By standers last saw Brown drifting south. 

Search and rescue crews were unable to located Mr. Brown.  The search was called off on August 31st after some of his clothing was found showing evidence of a shark attack.

It is unknown if Kameron Brown was attacked by a shark or not.  A large great white shark was seen in the area earlier in the day.  Hawaii sees many species of shark including great whites and tiger sharks.

References:
http://starbulletin.com/breaking/breaking.php?id=7633

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<dc:date>2008-09-01 16:35:52.140491+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Calvin Galbraith, 17, Bitten on Legs while Surfing, March 2009</title>
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        Calvin was attacked by a 7ft bull shark which sank its teeth into his calf during a surfing trip. 

Interestingly, Calvin's father was also bitten by a shark in 2003, off the coast of South Africa.

Calvin said: ”Dad always used to tell me about his attack. I was there but too young to remember it. The odds of it happening to me must be millions to one.

”I could tell when I saw my dad in the emergency room that it brought back all sorts of memories. He definitely knew what I’d been through.

”When he turned up and saw me he was like 'oh no, not again'. We’ve both got a story to tell now but I think his bite was bigger than mine so I guess he wins.”

Ian added: ”’It is a claim to fame I guess - father and son both being attacked by a shark. But not one I’d wish on anyone."

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Ian was attacked in January 1993 on a family holiday while swimming in the sea off Hibberdene near Durban, South Africa.

He said: ”It was a big bite, very painful, and I needed a lot of stitches at the time. But instinct just takes over.

“I remember kicking the shark with my free leg and I managed to get free. The weird thing was it happened in shallow water, only about chest deep."

Calvin was bitten last month off Halls Head beach in Western Australia while surfing with brother Scott, 13 <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4577223">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Jack May, 15, Bitten on the foot, April 3, 2009</title>
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        Jack May, of Colorado,  was on Spring Break with his family when he was bitten on the foot by a shark off Sanibel Island.

Jack and his family were swimming in waist-deep water off Florida's Sanibel Island when the attack happened.

"I was swimming around in the waves and all of a sudden I just felt this huge thing come after my leg and it hurt pretty bad and I just yelled 'shark, shark,'" Jack said.

"I'm a nurse and I couldn't even look at his foot," said Kathy May, Jack's mother. "I didn't know if it was all there or not, so I just wrapped it."

Jack needed 28 stitches, a cast and crutches.

"I definitely won't forget this," Jack said. "They said it will leave a big scar on my foot."

Paramedics told the May family that there had not been a shark attack in the area in more than 10 years.

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<dc:date>2009-04-10 03:22:27.595227+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Glenn Orgias, 33, bitten by Shark while Surfing, February 12, 2009</title>
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        Glenn Orgias was last night the victim of a shark attack at Bondi Beach, the second shark attack in Sydney this week.

The 33-year-old, who now lives at Dover Heights, suffered deep cuts to his arm and had his left hand severed when he was attacked while surfing the break

off South Bondi at about 8pm and is reportedly in a serious condition in intensive care at St Vincent's Hospital today.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4577327">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2009-04-10 05:03:03.854765+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Mike Spalding Bitten by a Cookie-Cutter Shark March 20, 2009</title>
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        A Maui man trying become only the third documented man to swim from the Big Island to Maui is now known for being the first living person to survive being bitten by a 'cookie-cutter' shark.

According to media reports, Mike Spalding of Kula was four hours into his attempt at crossing the 30-mile Alenuihaha Channel, known for its dangerous conditions, when an undersea animal attacked him Monday night. He was taken to shore by support boat and driven by his wife to Maui Memorial Medical Center. He checked out of the hospital on Friday.

Although Spalding never saw the creature, the circular wounds left on his chest and calf were tell tale signs of a cookie cutter shark attack.

The unusual circular bite marks were 3 inches in diameter and about 1 inch deep. Shark expert John Naughton told the press that it must be a cookie cutter shark. "I can't imagine what else it would be," Naughton said.

According to a recent AP article, cookie-cutter sharks are generally deep sea sharks by day, and grow up to 20 inches long and have razorlike teeth. Naughton says they're known as "mosquito of the sea" and normally take bites out of open-ocean fish like ahi, mahimahi, Hawaiian monk seals, dolphins or whales.

Spalding told the press he believes the shark was attracted to a group of squid that had been drawn to a light on the kayak next to him. He plans to use less light to attract fish on his next channel crossing attempt.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4577302">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2009-04-10 04:43:26.463112+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sibulele Masiza, 24, Probably Killed by Shark, January 2007</title>
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        lifeguard Sibulele Masiza, 24, who went missing while bodysurfing off Second Beach at the weekend, was almost certainly the victim of a tiger shark.

“Judging by the circumstances of his disappearance and the flipper that was torn, it can only have been a tiger shark attack,” said Geremy Cliff, spokesperson for the Natal Sharks Board.

Masiza’s torn flipper was washed up onto the beach soon after he disappeared on Sunday afternoon.

Cliff said the fine serration on Masiza’s flipper could only have been caused by the cockscomb-shaped teeth of a tiger shark, which differed from other sharks such as great whites or Zambezis.

Tiger sharks are one of the most aggressive of the species, Cliff said.

He said Port St Johns was a popular spot for the small fish that sharks feed on. But even so, the incident was the first proven shark attack in the area.

According to Sharks Board books there were claims of three incidents – in 1951, 1954 and 2004 – but there had been no hard evidence.

Ironically, it was Masiza who was attacked in 2004. He had gashes on his legs to prove it.

Asked if the public should be warned about sharks at Port St Johns, Cliff said: “It is important that people are made aware, but you do not want to scare them.”

Khaya Mjo, chief executive officer for the Wild Coast Guards and Masiza’s superior, said the search for the missing lifeguard had been suspended, although they would continue to be on the lookout for his body.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4577285">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2009-04-10 04:33:57.87536+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Luyolo Mangeni, 16, Dies after being Bitten by a Zambezi Shark while surfing, March 21, 2009 </title>
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        IN the second attack of its kind within two months, a 16-year-old boy died after he was savaged by a shark while surfing at Port St Johns at the weekend.

The attack has prompted calls to speed up investigations into alternative methods of safeguarding surfers and swimmers at the Transkei resort.

Locals have also attributed the latest attacks to the recent increase in surfers in the area.

Luyolo Mangele was in the water at Second Beach with four friends and their instructor during a surfing exercise on Friday afternoon.

Mangele separated from the group and was further out to sea when the shark struck.

After being bitten on his buttocks and left thigh, he managed to paddle to the shore and was pulled out of the water by his instructor and a lifesaver.

They tried to stabilise the bleeding and rushed him to hospital, were he later died.

The attack follows a similar one on January 24, when Sikhanyiso Bangilizwe, 25, was savaged to death by a giant Zambezi shark while swimming with his colleagues at the same beach.

Lifesaver Gerald Mtakathi confirmed the latest incident and said Mangele‘s wounds had been severe.

“The injuries were terrible. These attacks are becoming common in the area – it must be because there is too much activity in the water.”

Mangele‘s distraught brother Luyanda, 21, said he had been swimming on the other side of the beach when the incident occurred.

“When I came around to join them I was told he had been attacked and had been rushed to hospital. The sea was not rough I don‘t understand what brought the shark in the area.

“The whole family is sad. My brother was an avid surfer whose life revolved around swimming.”

Wild Coast Guards managing director Khaya Mjo expressed shock at the attacks, which are becoming increasingly common in the area.

Mjo said the latest incident brought to four the number of people who had been attacked in the area.

He said sharks fed on turtles and had poor eyesight. “It might be that sharks mistake surfers for turtles, especially if you are paddling.”

About 300 metres from the shore there is an area known as Shark Point.

Mjo, who served as a lifesaver at Port St Johns for some years, said: “I have never seen such gruesome attacks.”

He said there had been a surge in the number of surfers and this could be attracting the sharks.

The attacks have forced the Wild Coast Guards, the local municipality and the department of transport‘s maritime division to investigate alternatives for securing the beach.

The possibility had been mooted that shark nets could be erected. However, the KwaZulu Natal Sharks Board was not empowered to operate in the Eastern Cape.

There were other negatives to the shark net proposal. Mjo said the rough seas could easily damage the nets.

There was also a proposal for using electrodes to repel sharks, but environmentalist would “shoot it down” as this would also affect other species.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4577260">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2009-04-10 04:16:16.489123+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sikhanyiso Bangilizwe, 25, Killed by Bull Shark January 24, 2009</title>
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        Sikhanyiso Bangilizwe, 25, was fatally attacked by a giant Zambezi shark while swimming with colleagues at Second Beach. The man was bitten in half.

Experts say sewage in the water may have aggravated the attack. 

His nephew, Lumka Bangilizwe, who is also a lifeguard, said Bangilizwe ’s life could have been spared if there had been shark nets – and if traditional healers did not throw raw meat and blood into the sea at the beach.

“Then what do you expect … sharks smell all of that and come near where people are swimming,” said Lumka, who claimed the municipality knew about the practice but did nothing to stop it.

Environmental consultant Conroy van der Riet yesterday said the attack might have been indirectly caused by untreated sewage in the water. “It is a well known fact that tiger sharks – and some other species such as bull sharks – are attracted to areas where untreated effluent/sewage is released into the ocean and rivers.”

And East London Coastal and Environmental Services director Dr Alan Carter added: “ Sewage attracts bait fish, which in turn attract sharks. It is worth noting that one of the recommendations from the International Shark Attack File on how to decrease the already small chance of becoming a victim of a shark attack, is ‘Don’t go into waters containing sewage’.”

But Port St Johns municipal manager Zola Hewu denied that there was spillage of sewage into the ocean. “I am not sure what brought the shark to this area but it is definitely not the quality of the water,” he said. “If that was the case then there would have been more (attacks).”

Bangilizwe , of Mtonjana in Port St Johns – described by family and friends as a dedicated lifeguard who put other people’s lives before his own – was “a soldier at sea, very brave”, said his friend and trainer Thozamile Ndabeni yesterday.

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<dc:date>2009-04-10 04:22:16.562782+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Paul de Gelder, 31,  Loses an Arm and a Leg in Shark Attack, Feb 11, 2009</title>
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        A navy clearance diver, Paul de Gelder, was attacked on Wednesday during a training exercise in Sydney Harbour.

Able Seaman de Gelder, 31, was on the surface of the water, on his back kicking, when the shark attacked.

The police diver with him was doing the same counter-terrorism exercise at Woolloomooloo Bay when he heard screams.

Detective Inspector Glenn Finnis of NSW Police Marine Area Command said

such an attack was a concern but it would not deter police divers from using the harbour.

Police divers carried sonar devices, but the shark was not detected, he said. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4577312">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2009-04-10 04:55:52.641459+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Fisherman Bitten by Mako Shark, 27 January 2008</title>
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        A 20-year-old fisherman from Sydney was bitten by the three-metre mako shark about 7.30am AEST on a tuna boat more than 100 nautical miles off Coolangatta.

The 90kg shark whipped around and bit him on the right calf when he stepped on its tail.

"There's a few hands on the deck and they could not release the shark from the leg at all until they had cut the shark's head off,'' said a spokesman for RACQ CareFlight which was called to airlift the man hospital.

"It was locked on. The bite has gone down to the bone.

"I've seen a photo of the wound and it's pretty messy.''

The man is in a stable condition in The Gold Coast Hospital where he was to undergo emergency surgery.

He was fishing on a boat, bound for Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast, when the incident happened.

Paramedic Darrin Hatchman said the victim was lucky to be alive because the bite narrowly missed major blood vessels and arteries at the back of the knee.

"If it had have been a couple of millimetres either way, and a little bit more of a voracious bite, it would've been a real mercy dash to stop him from bleeding out,'' Mr Hatchman told ABC Radio.

he man was winched into the rescue helicopter about 10.40am AEST in a tricky operation, carried out in three- to five-metre swells.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2750038">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-02-04 08:06:20.97369+00:00</dc:date>
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        Fatal attack at Solana Beach. Most likely a Great White.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3080281">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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