A Sydney man stared was mauled by a shark while swimming in the Solomon Islands yesterday.
Benjamin D’Emden, 34, was holidaying on a remote island resort when the shark attacked him from below, biting him on his face! D’Emden was left with severe cuts to his face and neck. He was flown to the capital Honiara’s main hospital by an emergency medical charter.
Doctors at the National Referral Hospital were last night working to stabilise Mr D’Emden so he could be flown to Australia for emergency treatment.
SharkWatch! is an iPhone app that lets you check your odds before you actually get in the water. With the app you can browse through sightings, find out which species of shark may be in the area and find out about local attacks. Go get it.
Appalachian State University has put up a website designed to identify and track jellyfish along the North Carolina coast. It’s interactive and you can submit your sighting details whenever you spot a jellyfish.
Yet another great white shark spotted off Cape Cod…
Officials confirm the great white was seen in waters off Truro and Provincetown this weekend. Scientists say the sharks are drawn to the area by the exploding seal population.
10-year-old Seth Shorten, FL, was bitten by a shark while playing in the Atlantic south of Crescent Beach about 9:30 a.m. and spent the night in Flagler Hospital for treatment of the wounds – one of which had a piece of a shark’s tooth in it.
The 4-foot-10 Seth was about waist deep when he was bitten on his right heel. Shorten said the bite was on the back of his ankle. The shark left six bite marks on the bottom of Seth’s foot and three or four on the top.
This is the second bite this year in St. Johns County.
Nicholas Edwards, father-of-two, died after being attacked by a large shark in Western Australia’s world famous Margaret River surfing region.
Dunsborough police Sergeant Craig Anderson said 31-year-old Edwards was on his last day of vacation when he was attacked 300 metres from the South Point surf break south of Cowaramup Bay, near Gracetown.
Sergeant Anderson said a couple walking on the beach about 8am (WST) saw him sitting on his board waiting for a wave but when they turned around four minutes later, he had disappeared.
“They just saw the board only and a lot of grey objects around the board,” Sergeant Anderson said
“They’ve gone down a bit further and seen the fellow face down in the water amongst the rocks.”
It took the pair another six minutes to wade in and pull the unconscious surfer from the water. Sergeant Anderson said he was believed to already be dead but one of the rescuers tied a tourniquet and began CPR with the help of surfers who were suiting up in the carpark at the time.
“It appears that his right leg has been shredded with some significant injuries to the top of his leg and minor injuries to the calf,” Sergeant Anderson sa
About 10 minutes later his board washed up to shore after being bitten in half.
Tourists visiting the French Riviera have been left high and dry after a shark sighting prompted a swimming ban.
The alert was issued yesterday after lifeguards patrolling in a motorboat spotted a creature measuring more than seven feet long.
Red ‘no swimming’ flags were also raised in the resorts of Villeneuve – Loubet and St. Laurent-du-Var, as people in boats telephoned warnings about the suspected shark, which had a large dorsal fin and a white belly. It was swimming some 150 feet off the coast, prompting fears that it might be wounded or ill, and might start attacking swimmers.
Chuck Patterson was SUP surfing with a couple friends when 2 sharks circled us for about 15 minutes. So the next day he decided to go back out with a camera mounted on a 10 ft pole and do some exploring.
Within 5 minutes a 9 ft shark came out of nowhere, circled twice and slapped its tail on his board before disappearing. Then, a minute later a 7 ft juvenile Great White swam circles around him for 12 minutes.
Josh Clement, 25, was surfing off Figure Eight Island with some friends Saturday. About 3 p.m., he caught a wave in. As he was jumping back on his board to paddle back out, he accidentally kicked the shark. He says the shark then turned and bit his left foot. Yeouch!
