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.
Kevin Moraga, 15, suffered a shark attack while surfing with friends in Playa Grande, in the northwestern province of Guanacaste at 12:15 a.m. on Sunday.
Elidio Mendoza, from the Cartagena Red Cross, said Moraga has “considerable wound” in his left thigh.
“Happily, in spite of the injury, the boy was conscious and vital signs were also good,” Mendoza said. “But obviously he had fainted due to the blood loss.”
The Cartagena Red Cross said they have not attended to any shark attacks in recent years at Playa Grande.
Moraga remains under observation in an intensive care unit at Hospital La Anexión on the Nicoya peninsula in Guanacaste.
A boogie boarder was attacked and killed by a shark on Wednesday off Reunion Island near Madagascar. Apparently he had an arm torn off and the deep bite to the thigh and a side. It’s in French but read more here…
