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.
A Ft. Lauderdale diver was bitten by the shark he was trying to rescue on Sunday. The diver was attempting to free the nurse shark from a net when it bit him. He was treated on the scene for lacerations but is expected to survive.
A student has been left with severe cuts to her leg after she was attacked by a shark off the South African coast.
Sarah Haiden was snorkelling at a reef a mile offshore near the Mozambique border when she was dragged under the water. The 21-year-old had been swimming with three other divers and thought one of them was ‘playing a joke on her’, before she realised she had been attacked by the killer fish.
The crew of a speed boat which had taken her and the other divers to the reef managed to pull her from the water and she was rushed to hospital with injuries to her lower left leg.
Authorities say a surfer was taken to a hospital after being bitten on the foot by a shark at Pismo Beach, California.
The 19-year-old man was bitten Friday while in the ocean near Silver Shoals. By the time help arrived he was out of the water with a cut on his left foot.
The surfer described the shark as approximately four feet long, brown in color with dark spots. He was driven to a hospital for treatment.
Battalion Chief Steve Reeder says officials determined this was a credible dangerous marine animal sighting and advisories will be posted. However, beaches will remain open.
A Greensboro girl was bitten by a shark at Topsail Island on Friday afternoon.
Carley Schlentz, 13, of Greensboro, was swimming with friends Friday when she bitten by a shark twice near the top of her left leg. Schlentz was taken to Cape Fear Hospital where she received 60 stitches.
According to Angela Schlentz, the girl’s mother, Carley is currently taking antibiotics and will be on crutches for two weeks while the wounds heal. Schlentz said Carley might need plastic surgery next year after the wound completely heals.
Hannah Mayo’s luck with oceanic predators ain’t so good. At age 9, she was stung and scarred by a Portuguese man-of-war off the South Carolina coast. Now 18, the freshly graduated Brookwood High School student was bitten by a shark! The attack happened on Thursday at about 12:30 p.m. while Mayo was boogie boarding in waist-deep water off Jacksonville Beach in Florida. The shark chomped her on her left foot and leg.
Mayo’s boyfriend was next to her at the time and pulled her to shore and got her to the hospital where she received 29 stitches.
According to Mayo’s mom, “She said she’s done with the ocean.”
A surfer was knocked off his board and badly bitten by an unidentified shark on a remote beach on Western Australia’s south coast on Sunday.
The man was surfing at Conspicuous Beach, a rugged and isolated stretch of the Southern Ocean near the southwest town of Walpole, when he was attacked just after noon.
An ambulance rushed the man to Denmark Hospital and then transferred to a larger hospital in the southern city of Albany where he is expected to undergo surgery.
The surfer’s leg is believed to have been badly bitten during the attack.
Although the type of shark is yet to be identified, great whites are common in the area.
A 49 -year-old man was airlifted to safety after a shark bit him about 50 miles northwest of Tarpon Springs on Sunday.
Mike Seymore, a crewmember on the 40-foot commercial fishing vessel Miss Irene, was bitten in the leg by a shark while attempting to remove a fishing hook.
The Coast Guard immediately launched a rescue helicopter crew. They arrived on scene and safely hoisted Seymore and transferred him to Tampa General Hospital.
