Shark Bite At Florida Beach?
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
14-year-old Kevin Crowley had a brief, but violent encounter with a possible shark on Tuesday.
Crowley was bitten by a four-to five-foot-long, light brown creature in shallow water at Florida’s Melbourne Beach.
Kevin made it to his grandparents’ home two blocks away with his bloodied arm wrapped in a friend’s T-shirt. He received six stitches at Holmes Regional Medical Center to his left arm to close a two-inch gash caused by the apparent shark bite.
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thats cool and creepy
r u sure it was a shark?
that’s impossible for a shark to be at a shollow place at a beach. The possibility is very unlikely.
No, it’s not impossible, Jennifer..
A shark will go anywhere there’s food… they may swim in shallows to chase prey fish (Contrary to legend, they prefer fish to people) and will often do so if they “fix” on a particular fish which is heading beachward, swimming carefully around much larger snacks to do so.
I suspect, however, that the estimate of size may have been a little generous. A five-foot shark would have a bigger bite..
jennifer where do you live?… i live and swim in NSB florida,
and yes the sharks love to come up in shallows right to the beach
Yes, I am surfing at Melbourne beach, and it’s full of marine life, the turtle are eating close to the shore, and many sharks follow them. Ask any fisher around, but I think that guy could be attack by another kind of animal or a very small shark.
Could have been a Sting Ray if it was only two inch gash.
Humans killed by shark yearly: under 10
Sharks killed by humans yearly: 100,000,000
Many sharks are going extinct. Like lions sharks serve a purpose in the food chain.
We need to bump it up to 300,000,000 sharks a year. We are definitely slacking.