Les Wade had been surfing alone at Seven Mile Beach, Gerroa, for an hour on Saturday morning when a wave brought him closer to shore about 8.30am.
He’d just gotten off his board and was standing on the sand in waist-deep water about 60 feet from shore. He started walking and was just about to jump back on his board when he felt something hit him from behind. At first he thought it was another surfer knocking into him but when he turned around there was a 6 ft shark staring at him.
The shark eventually took off but had already chowed down on Wade’s leg and foot. The shark’s teeth had dragged some deep wounds along his skin, including a 6″ gash on his shin and a wound to the heel. You could peel the skin back see the bone. Ew.
Wade’s wounds were cleaned and checked for any lingering shark teeth before receiving more than 50 stitches. He was released from hospital five hours later.
Ha had planned to return to the ocean as soon as possible but after a rough night of reliving the incident in his head, he’s having second thoughts.
Turns out the man who was chomped by a shark in Ausrtralia yesterday was 52-year-old Les Wade. He was about 20 yards out when he felt a tug on his leg. Thinking it was another surfer, he turned around to find a 6ft bronze whaler shark.
Wade was bleeding badly from the FIVE bites to his lower left leg but managed to catch a wave to shore. 50 stitches later… he was able to limp out of the hospital last night.
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.
A shark attacked and killed a French tourist diving in a remote site off Egypt’s Red Sea coast on Tuesday. According to sources, the woman’s leg showed visible bite marks, and she likely bled to death.
A deckhand on a Taiwanese fishing boat suffered some serious shark bite injuries on Sunday while trying to move what he thought was an unconscious shark to a freezer.
The victim, Zhang Sanqian pulled the shark onto the deck where it was electrocuted. Zhang was pulling the shark toward the freezer when it suddenly attacked him… twice! It got him in the knee and tore off large chunks of flesh from the back of his left leg.
Zhang needed 54 stitches to close the wounds but he’ll live.
Looks like there was actually THREE shark attacks at New Smyrna Beach on Sunday. The first two were fairly minor but the third involved a bite to the leg which required several stitches.
Glenn Orgias, who lost his left hand to a shark back in May, is so grateful for the blood he received from the Australian Red Cross on the way to the hospital that he’s decided to become the face of their new campaign. Orgias will help launch their “Donate for your state” campaign, free of charge.
He doesn’t recall much of the attack but says without the blood he would never have survived.
