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Australian Mother Says She Fought Shark Off With Camera to Save Children Friday, May 18, 2007  Becky Cooke with her five sons, Jacob, Hayden, Ethan, James and Brandon. A woman who was attacked by a shark on a West Australian reef says all she could think of was fighting it off before it could savage her teenage son wading alongside or the 3-year-old on her hip. Mother-of-five Becky Cooke, 38, had her heel and calf lacerated by the 2.5 meter shark as she waded across a coral reef with two of her sons at remote Warra Beach, south of Coral Bay, on Wednesday. From her bed in Royal Perth Hospital Friday she described how scared she had been when she realized she had been bitten and more sharks could be attracted by her spreading blood. "All I could think of was getting it off my leg so I could get to shore because I did not know if it was alone, or if there were others sharks out there," Cooke said. Water turned red Flanked by her husband Peter and sons, Brandon, 13, Hayden, 10, Jacob, 7, James, 6, and Ethan, 3, Cooke explained she had been wading in shallow water with Ethan and Brandon when the shark struck on day four of their nine-day holiday. "It just felt like something had hit me, at first, I turned around and I saw all this thrashing and the water just turned red. "My son was with me, we were walking together, I just think thank goodness it bit me, not Brandon. "I had my camera in my hand and Ethan on my hip, I started hitting it with my camera and shaking my leg trying to get it off. "It let go, I took a couple of steps and fell into the water because my leg was pretty bad. "As I fell into the water the sea just turned to blood. "It was pretty scary, I wasn't sure if it had gone, if it was going to come back." Worried for children Cooke said her main worry was the unidentified shark might attack her children. "Brandon came running over and I said to him 'take Ethan' and he grabbed Ethan and ran back to shore." She said she did not feel the pain until she reached the shore where she was given first aid, helped by her husband, family friends and two volunteer conservation officers who turned up at the beach just moments before the attack. Cooke said he used his mobile to call for help and then drove his wife in their four-wheel-drive to Coral Bay where she was taken by ambulance to Carnarvon and on to Perth. She will have an operation tonight on her severe calf wounds, knowing she could face two years of treatment. "I could still lose my foot, I would like to try and save my foot," she said.
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i love summer. it's time to watch JAWS again.  HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) -- All the way back to shore after an 8-foot tiger shark chomped into his left leg, Harvey Miller thought he might die. Harvey Miller, left, and Dr. Patrick Murray speak at a news conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Friday.  "I just remember saying, 'Oh God, not like this, no way,"' Miller said Friday, a day after the fish attacked him off Oahu's Bellows Beach. The animal went after the 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 happened almost 50 years ago, 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 some 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.  Watch Miller describe how he escaped from shark »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, if all goes well, playing basketball with his teenage son in six months to a year. "I'm happy -- one, to be alive and two, that I don't anticipate ... losing the leg," he said. Miller said a stranger helped save him by wading into the ocean to answer his cries for help. "He's my hero. I would not have made it out of the water without his assistance. I owe my life to that man," Miller said. 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 3 to 4 inches long and the other about a foot long. Murray spent two hours operating on Miller's leg on Thursday. He said the Ohio man would need additional surgery to repair nerve damage. Randy Honebrink, Shark Task Force spokesman, said the shark 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.
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i love summer.  SARASOTA, Fla. -- (AP) -- A college student received more than 100 stitches after being bitten by a shark in Sarasota Bay. Andrea Lynch, 20, said she was floating on her back near a boat when the shark bit her in her side Wednesday, shook her a little bit and then let her go. When she got back in the boat, she told her three friends that she might have been bitten by a shark and they thought she might be joking -- or mistaken. ''I reached back with my hand and felt all these gashes on me,'' she said, ``and there was blood running down my body and pooling in the boat.'' Lynch had 17 puncture wounds. Doctors said the shark's teeth got close to her lungs, but missed all major organs. A shark expert said he believed the attack was by a roughly 6-foot-long bull shark.
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in Ninja's forum i talked about JAWS and the 1916 attacks that took 5 lives in NJ. also one life in buzzard's bay. well i read the boston and cape papers daily, and the harbor-master in chatham (cape cod) has now ruled out swimming due to sightings of great whites. they are munching on the seals there. florida gets a lot of bites on surfers, most of them exploratory. there have been a few fatalities here, bull sharks being the aggressors. but in 1916 a white went up a creek and killed people. a fresh-water creek! that is what JAWS was based on, by Peter Benchley.
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OK...this guy is a MARINE BIOLOGIST and swims at night in tropical waters??? DUH. he's still in hospital. i will admit however, shark attacks in the keys are VERY rare. but you don't swim at night!! Shark bites swimmer off Islamorada Posted on Mon, Aug. 20, 2007 A 52-year-old marine biologist who swims every night offshore of Founder's Park in Islamorada was apparently bitten by a shark on Sunday. Chris Olstad, 52, was swimming his normal route from the park to a sailboat about a half mile offshore and back about 9:15 p.m. He had made it to the boat and about a quarter of a mile back when he was struck in the side. He believes it was by a shark. ''I felt a bump and a shake and felt the head of an animal,'' he said Monday. After the attack, he managed to make it back to shore. No one was around, he said. As he walked along the beach toward the sheriff's Islamorada substation, located at the entrance to Founder's Park, he passed out three times, sustaining cuts and bruises on his head. Eventually he made it the 100 yards to the station, where an ambulance took him to Mariner's Hospital, a short distance away. Sgt. Tom Kiffney, who spoke with Olstad at Mariner's Hospital, said the man's wounds were extensive, from under his arm to his waist, with a large chunk of his flesh missing. From the Keys hospital, he was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he remained Monday. ''I've been swimming there for eight years,'' he said. ``This is a pretty rare event.''
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Lady Cop wrote: OK...this guy is a MARINE BIOLOGIST and swims at night in tropical waters??? DUH. he's still in hospital. i will admit however, shark attacks in the keys are VERY rare. but you don't swim at night!! That's what happens!..........No one is EVER around! Sharks never bite a soccer team splashing around in the south Florida keys! Me I stick a big toe in the water up here BAM I'm just a red spot going with the tide.  kinda like a "lure". Jaws was a very impressive movie and left a lasting impression on me. Dog sharks don't bother me much though, but Tiger and Mako thats a dif kettle of fish! I think great whites are to big to want me. I hope.I am gonna have to stay out of those "dead zones" that makem hungry. If that what it takes. stupid freakin fish!...........one way S.O.B. think I'm a freakin hamburger.............
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i just swiped your shark smiley....too cute! 
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Monterey Surfer Attacked By Shark POSTED: 12:45 pm PDT August 28, 2007 UPDATED: 10:56 pm PDT August 28, 2007 MARINA -- A Marina man surfing in the waters off Marina State Beach Tuesday was attacked by a 12-foot white shark and airlifted to the hospital with torso and thigh injuries. Witnesses said Todd Endris, 24 of Marina, was surfing with a half dozen other people at Marina State Beach when the shark attacked him from behind around 11 a.m. Loren Rex, a California State Parks spokesman, said the victim screamed and started punching the shark while trying to flee. "Then the shark took him down under the water," he said. "Witnesses saw a lot of thrashing and some blood coming up. Other witnesses saw the shark let him up before biting him one more time." One witness said the shark was a great white shark measuring at least 20 feet long, which rescuers weren't able to immediately confirm, Rex said. Surfers pulled Endris to shore and administered first aid, using a surf leash and a blanket as tourniquets to stop the bleeding until rescuers could arrive, Rex said. Endris was conscious and breathing when he was taken away by ambulance. He was then airlifted to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, where he was in fair and stable condition Tuesday afternoon with lacerations to his torso and thigh, according to hospital spokeswoman Joy Alexiou. After surgery on his wounds, Endris was recovering in good condition. "His vital signs are stable and he's conscious and uncomfortable, obviously," Alexiou said. She did not say when Endris would be released to return to his Marina home. The Monterey County beach, located about 35 miles south of Santa Cruz, is well known for its sand dunes, hang gliding and rugged surf with very strong rip currents. The area where the surfer was attacked is considered an advanced surfing spot suitable only for skilled surfers. Because of the attack, state officials closed all the beaches from Monterey State Beach to Moss Landing, a 15-mile stretch where people were forbidden from entering the water Tuesday. Rex said this was the first recorded shark attack at Marina State Beach, but added that some divers have been attacked in Monterey Bay.
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fatalities quite rare here. A 50-year-old diver bitten by a shark in waters off Broward County Sunday has died, according to Petty Officer Jennifer Johnson, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Coast Guard. His identity has not been released by the Coast Guard. The man was diving off a 70-foot commercial vessel named Sheerwater about 50 miles east of Fort Lauderdale on Sunday when he was bitten. It's unknown what type of shark bit the man. ''He got away before anyone was able to identify it,'' Petty Officer Nick Ameen said. The Coast Guard received a mayday from a Sheerwater crew member at around 10 a.m. The crew of a Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter took off immediately from Air Station Miami.
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 COURTESY OF HEUTE Markus Groh, 49, a lawyer from Vienna, died after a shark bite at Jackson Memorial Hospital Sunday.The man who died in Miami after a shark bite Sunday is a lawyer from Vienna, according to the Austrian counsel general in Miami. Markus Groh, 49, died at Jackson Memorial Hospital Sunday, hours after a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter brought him there, counsel general Karlick Arthur said. The ship Groh was diving from, Shear Water, is registered to Jim Abernethy of Scuba Adventures from Riviera Beach. A spokeswoman at the company's dockside office declined to comment Monday. A dockmaster said the company might release a statement later Monday. The blue boat remained docked in the Intracoastal Monday with scuba tanks and wetsuits still on deck. The U.S. Coast Guard received a mayday call from someone aboard the 70-foot diving boat about 10 a.m. Sunday. A helicopter crew hoisted Groh out of the water near the Bahamas and flew him to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead Monday. Austrian media reported a shark bit Groh in the leg, but local authorities say they are still investigating. The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's office determined Groh's death to be accidental, but more details were not available Monday. Investigators also are trying to determine what type of shark bit the man. Abernethy's website advertises shark-diving excursions to find hammerheads, tiger, lemon, bull and other sharks. The divers go down without cages, attracting the sharks to them with fish chum, according to the website. Abernethy's clients include photographers, filmmakers, marine biologists and shark enthusiasts. He blogged earlier this month about a diving trip with guests from Germany and Austria: ''The Hammerheads arrived within minutes every day,'' Abernethy wrote. ``The water was clear and the sharks were plentiful.'' Abernethy's company has been cautioned by the Bahamas Diving Association to use more care on its shark excursions. The group, of which Abernethy is not a member, sent Abernethy and other dive operators a cease-and-desist letter last year asking them to stop diving for sharks in open water without cages. ''For close to 30 years, we've been recommending certain guidelines, which have allowed hundreds of thousands of people to dive safely,'' said Neal Watson, president of the Bahamas Diving Association. ``Abernethy would not use a cage and this is the result. It's total negligence.''
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That's really sad. I could sure think of better ways to go. Makes you wonder if it was the victims carelessness, or maybe the company who's boat the trip was scheduled with. Let us know would you LC, as more comes in. Did he have a family?
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i don't know if he has family, i imagine so. this was a large predator feeding trip, and should ONLY be done in a cage, he chose not to use cage. it's no different than feeding any large toothy predator, gators, bears, whatever. hand-feeding them conditions them to associate people with food. these charters use GPS to go to the same areas all the time, where they know large pelagic sharks congregate. edited to add...i just heard they were chumming the water. not very smart to enter open water swirling with blood and fish guts. Last edited on 11:26 pm by Lady Cop |
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 ANDREW ULOZA/FOR THE MIAMI HERALD The 65-foot boat Shear Water took Markus Groh to where he was killed by a shark.Denise Herzing used to love starting her mornings at sea with a dip in the reef-protected waters off Grand Bahama. When she was out on dolphin-observation trips near Memory Rock -- off the island's West End -- the marine mammalogist would anchor in a spot that was usually safe from predatory sea animals. But those swims ended a few years back when unexpected guests crashed the party. More than a half-dozen lemon sharks began circling her boat, conditioned by humans to associate people with food. Herzing, a Florida Atlantic University professor and treasurer of the Wild Dolphin Project, blames shark-baiting, cageless divers like Jim Abernethy. He is the Riviera Beach business owner whose diving trip to the Bahamas ended with the death of an Austrian tourist on Feb. 27. ''Feeding the sharks changes their behavior,'' Herzing said. ``It's just like feeding bears at Yellowstone. It makes them associate humans with food. It makes them more aggressive. It endangers people.'' Herzing is one of several vocal critics of Abernethy's methods, but the diver, who has declined repeated interview requests, has throngs of dedicated supporters. The two sides have been engaged in an intense back-and-forth on the Internet since Markus Groh, a 49-year-old Viennese attorney, died from a shark bite last Sunday morning. The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's Office has concluded that loss of blood killed Groh and has ruled the death an accident. Groh was on one of Abernethy's shark-diving trips to the Bahamas, which, unlike Florida, allows divers to chum waters to attract sharks. It is believed that a tiger shark lunged for food, but got Groh's leg instead. The U.S. Coast Guard and Bahamian authorities, aided by Miami-Dade police, are conducting separate investigations into the incident. NEGATIVE ATTENTION Bahamian authorities, concerned by the negative attention the death has brought to their country, could revoke Abernethy's permit that allows him to do business in their country's waters. There's a fear in the underwater photography community -- whose members have been among Abernethy's staunchest supporters -- that the Bahamas could ban cageless shark diving altogether, which Florida did in 2001. The website sharksavers.org has begun a petition urging the Bahamas Diving Association ``to preserve current shark diving policies and resist overreaction to this horrible, but isolated, tragedy.'' As of late Friday afternoon, the petition had 298 signers. Shark Savers, a nonprofit organization founded last year, is made up of divers ''who care deeply about the environment and the oceans and sharks in particular,'' according to its website. The organization acknowledges the risks involved in cageless diving, but argues the practice has resulted in far fewer deaths than other extreme sports like rock-climbing and cliff-diving. In fact, Groh's death is considered to be the first shark-baiting fatality on record. Rob Stewart filmed the documentary Shark Angels in the Bahamas in November on Abernethy's boat Shear Water, the same one Groh was on during his fatal adventure. Stewart has appeared on the Today show supporting Abernethy in the wake of last week's incident. ''Diving with sharks is one of the best ways to get new understanding of sharks,'' he said on TV. ``The reality behind sharks is they're not menacing predators of people; they're not out there to get human beings. This shark bite shows that the clear intention of the shark is not to eat them.'' When the dust settles, pro-cageless divers may have little to worry about. Michael Braynen, the Bahamas' director of marine resources, said none of his government's agencies restrict any form of diving, and as of Friday afternoon, he hadn't heard of any effort to change that. ''Shark diving has been going on for a considerable period of time in the Bahamas,'' Braynen said. ``Some believe it started here.'' `UNFORTUNATE' ''It was an unfortunate accident, but it's not the first time someone has been attacked in the Bahamas or in Florida,'' he added. Some fear it won't be the last. George Burgess, a shark researcher for the Florida Museum of Natural History, compared the dumping of bloody chum into the open waters to tossing a sirloin steak to lions on the plains of Africa. ''If you're going to put food in the water and you get the animals excited,'' Burgess said, ``it's your own fault.''
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april 25 a man has been killed by a shark in solana beach (san diego). surfers said they saw the shark, and they saw the man's severed legs! this news is just breaking, i am waiting for more details. choppers are up looking for the shark.
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