Archive for the 'Florida' Category
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
The city of Sanibel, FL has been informed by Lee County Division of Natural Resources that the Blind Pass dredging project is attracting sharks. Uh-oh.
Project Manager Robert Neal told Sanibel officials that this is common for beach projects around dawn and dusk of each day and this project is more likely to attract sharks since it’s close to shore.
Neal is attempting to have appropriate warning signage in place in early January 2009.
In the meantime, spread the word…
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
A 663-pound hammerhead shark was caught off the Coast of Volusia County, Florida (shark bite capital of the world) on Wednesday. The shark measured more than twelve feet long.
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
A couple of local fishermen snagged an 11′ Mako shark night while fishing in Panama City beach, Florida.
Monday night, R.D. Foote and Rich Stulen the five hundred twenty-five pound Mako about one hundred yards offshore. Foote owns and operates R.D.’s Sharkin Safaries and says this is his 32nd shark (6′ or longer) he’s caught in the past year.
Foote said he saw three dark shadows in the water while he and his buddy were fishing. He said two of them swam off but the third one didn’t. And that’s when he felt a big tug on his rod.
Uh, that means there’s two more out there, right?
For Dave ; )
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Eleven-year-old Hudson Anthony survived a nibble from a sand shark while wading in the waters of Santa Rosa, FL.
Hudson was standing alone in a school of minnows in waist-deep water on Oct. 8 when he felt an intense, sharp pain. Then he saw a nice, big gash.
“Shark Bait” was taken to Sacred Heart Hospital in Santa Rosa where the family learned from hospital officials that a school of minnows is the last place a swimmer needs to be hanging out. Sharks feed there. Based on the size of the wound, which required two layers of stitches and eight stitches on top, hospital officials speculated the gash came from a 4-5 ft sand shark.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
A 47-year-old man reported that he was bitten on the right arm by a shark while swimming in front of the Sanibel Moorings in Florida. Police responded to the incident but the man bandaged his injury himself and did not request or require any additional medical attention.
Sharks are found regularly along beaches in the Gulf of Mexico, however, attacks on humans by sharks are supposedly very rare. According to Chief Tomlinson, “Swimmers are reminded that even though the relative risk of a shark attack is very rare, in the interest of safety, certain precautions should always be taken.”
Duh.
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UPDATE: Sanibel police are urging swimmers to be cautious after the victim, Jack Miller, 47, was bitten on the forearm by a shark at around 2:45 yesterday. He was swimming with his son when the shark chomped down on him, leaving three lacerations on his forearm.
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
A group of sharks and a really big stingray were caught on tape lurking off Golden Beach, FL Friday morning.
The video shot from a helicopter show four sharks swimming through crystal clear water about 60 feet offshore.
Consider yourselves warned…
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Here’s the damage from Wednesday’s mishap involving David Zettle, who jumped off his surf board in chest deep water and landed on, or rather IN a shark… his entire foot went into the shark’s mouth. Nice.
The doc told him it was one of the worst shark injuries the hospital has treated. David received 30 stitches.
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
So about 30 fish were spotted “walking” through a Florida neighborhood on Tuesday.
The walking catfish were spotted in the road near a Pinellas Park subdivision. The fish used their pectoral fins to walk or shuffle around the streets.
Apparently the catfish can travel on land as long as they stay moist. Hmmm… can sharks do this??
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Three weeks ago Jennifer Cation and her six-year old daughter were in the ocean in north Florida when a shark attacked the unsuspecting mom on the ankle. We finally got some pics of the damage.
A FOX News Reporter interviewed Cation about the attack. Watch it here.
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Here are some pics some kid took at St. Andrews State Park, Florida recently. The three sharks were spotted swimming in the “pool” area.
Beach plans for the 4th?
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