VIDEO: Update On Isle Of Palms Victim
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Shark Attacks Teen In South Carolina!
Monday, July 26th, 2010
A Hamilton County teenager was attacked by a shark while on vacation near Charleston, South Carolina. It happened at a popular vacation spot called Isle Of Palms.
16-year-old Alex Stamm had to get 40 stitches in his leg after the shark attacked him.
Stamm says he was in waist deep water when he felt something biting his leg. He says he looked up and saw the shark’s tail swimming away. He thinks the shark was about four feet long.
Shark Chows Down On Baseball Player!
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Clayton Shulz, a baseball player at the University of North Florida, is recovering after being bitten by a shark in Jacksonville.
“The shark grabbed me and shook his head a little bit, and I think he kind of realized that he was biting the wrong thing, so he let go,” said Clayton.
The 20-year-old needed 400 stitches to repair the injury to his foot.
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Giant Jellyfish Stings 150 People!
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
A large dead jellyfish wreaked havoc on a New Hampshire beach yesterday, stinging as many as 150 people, most of them children, and sending five to the hospital.
Panic ensued at Wallis Sands State Park in Rye, where emergency officials were called at about 1:30 p.m. and told that anywhere from 125 to 150 people had been stung.
The jellyfish had broken apart earlier in the day when park officials tried to remove its carcass, and the floating pieces stung those in the water.
Apparently, the jellyfish was roughly the size of trash can lid.
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Shark Bite #2 For New Smyrna!
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
A 55-year-old New Smyrna Beach man became Volusia County’s second shark bite victim of 2010 over the weekend.
Deputy Chief Mike Hensler said the surfer, identified as Jimmy Johnston, told Beach Patrol officers he was sitting on his surfboard with his feet out of the water Saturday near the Ponce de Leon Inlet’s south jetty.
He said he saw a baitfish jump into the air nearby. It was followed by a small spinner shark, Hensler said.
“The guy said the shark missed the fish, but grabbed his foot,” Hensler said.
In alarm, Johnston pulled his right foot from the shark’s mouth, causing most of the injury, which consisted of two cuts to the top and seven to the bottom of his foot.
Johnston becomes Volusia’s second bite victim of the year. The first was in May when a 10-year-old from Orlando suffered a minor bite while playing in shallow water near 20th Avenue, also in New Smyrna Beach.
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Boy Bitten By Shark At Myrtle Beach!
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
A 10-year-old boy has been bitten by a shark while swimming off the coast of South Carolina.
Myrtle Beach police Capt. David Knipes said the boy had a cut on his leg and was taken to a local hospital Monday for treatment. University of Florida shark expert George Burgess says photographs he saw indicate a shark bite.
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130 Swimmers Stung By Stingrays!
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Stingrays have stung about 130 people since Wednesday and most of them were at La Jolla Shores, lifeguards said.
Three people were hospitalized Wednesday. Lifeguards said that at one point, they were treating 11 or 12 people at the same time.
One woman even got stung twice!
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Another Shark Attack in Texas!
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
A Texas fisherman is recovering Friday from injuries he sustained after he was bitten by a shark in the Texas coastal waters off Galveston.
Charlie Gauzer was fishing off Galveston Island when he said the shark approached his boat and bit down on his leg. “I started to feel pain…I looked down and I had blood coming out of my leg,” Gauzer said. The shark bit deeper into Gauzer’s leg as the fisherman tried to escape.
“It was gashed pretty good, down to the bone,” Gauzer said. The shark missed the artery but did severe Gauzer’s Achilles tendon.
The attack on Gauzer is the second shark attack near Galveston’s 8 Mile Road Beach in less than a month. A surfer was attacked by a shark at the end of June requiring 60 stitches to repair the gash.
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