A South African surfer survived a shark attack Friday after he was bitten on his arm and leg, having been saved by fellow surfers, the National Sea Rescue Institute said.
“A 27-year-old surfer was bitten on his upper left arm and on his right leg by a shark of unknown species,” spokesman Craig Lambinon said.
Fellow surfers pulled him from the water on his board and raised the alarm for others in the water at the Cinsta East beach, he said.
By the time rescue services arrived, the man was already on land.
Paramedics determined that he was in stable condition but took him to a private hospital in East London, Lambinon said.
The last fatal shark attack in South Africa was in January 2010.
A 5-year-old was hospitalized after a shark attack off Ocracoke Island, according to Hyde County authorities.
Emergency crews responded to a shark bite call just after 5 p.m. Tuesday.
“Bystanders described what appeared to be a shark attacking a child in the South Point area,” Hyde County Deputy Emergency Services Director, Brian Carter, said in a news release.
Carter says the 5-year-old girl was flown to an area hospital. The patient’s condition and identity are both unknown at this time.
A Fort Worth boy survived a shark attack in early July, and surgeons in Houston have been working ever since to save his foot.
The attack happened off of a remote beach about three and a half hours from Galveston. Nicholas Vossler, 12, was playing near a sandbar when a bull shark grabbed his left foot and began to maul it.
A helicopter then took him to Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. Nicholas has undergone six surgeries to repair his badly damaged foot, which included a skin graft and muscle graft from his arm and leg.
A diver in Grand Bahama almost had his arm bitten off in a shark attack after another boat began dumping chum into the water.
Rescue workers received a distress call from crew onboard the Lady Joe at around 12:30pm on Tuesday, according to reports from the Bahamas Air Sea Rescue Association (BASRA).
According to reports, the victim’s crew were diving on shark junction – a spot near Our Lucaya hotel designated for shark feedings – when a glass-bottom boat came over them. Although the crew had the proper dive flag erected, it was reported that the boat, Ocean View, did not heed the verbal warnings of the dive crew.
It is believed that the shark attack, which left the victim’s arm nearly severed, was the result of the blood and fish guts thrown into the water.
The injured man was stabilised and taken from Port Lucaya to hospital by an ambulance.
An American man was badly mauled by a shark while scuba-diving off Rocky Bay coast near Pennington on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast.
The man was diving for scientific research when he was attacked just after noon. Both his hands and his left leg were badly mauled. Paramedics had to stabilize him before he was airlifted to Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital.
A young girl visiting from out of town was bitten by what is believed to be a shark over the weekend at North Topsail Beach.
North Topsail Town Manager Steve Foster told WECT.com the girl was standing in shallow water on the south end of the beach Sunday afternoon, when something nipped her ankle. Emergency responders took her to the hospital, where it was determined she had damage to her Achilles tendon, according to Foster.
Medical personnel recovered a tooth out of the girl’s ankle, lending to the belief that it was a shark bite.
The ten-year-old girl was standing in three feet of water when she was attacked by a shark Sunday. The attack happened on a beach in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The shark dragged Cassidy Cartwright under water. Cassidy’s mother, Carolyn, described the scene as “bloody.”
Cassidy did have several torn tendons, but doctors saved the limb. She will need several months to recover fully.
Kevin Moraga, 15, the victim of a shark attack on Sunday, died after enduring massive blood lost, San José’s Hospital Mexico said through a press release.
A shark bit Moraga while he surfed with friends in Playa Grande, in the northwestern province of Guanacaste at 12:15 p.m. on Sunday.
Moraga was transferred on Wednesday in a coma to the Hospital Mexico in San José, where doctors are better equipped to handle trauma patients. He died Thursday afternoon of a cerebral edema. An edema is caused by a large build-up of fluids in the brain.
Elidio Mendoza, from the Cartagena Red Cross, told The Tico Times that Moraga had a “considerable wound” in his left thigh.
A 20 year old man from Louisiana is lucky to be alive after being bitten by a shark yesterday afternoon in Orange Beach. It happened near the Alabama-Florida line about 500 yards off shore.
A 20 year old tourist from Louisiana had been bitten by what was most likely a bull shark when he fell off his jet ski.
Apparently the shark nabbed him on the back of his foot… his tendons were torn, you could see his achilles, and see the bone.
Bystanders helped stopped the bleeding and he was taken to the hospital.
