Durban Surfer Lance Morris was attacked by either a small shark or some other form of predator fish like a Barracuda or Morey eel at North Beach on Friday. Whatever it was, he needed 10 stitches to repair the damage. By the size of the bite marks on his leg, the doctor who stitched him up estimated the attacker to be about 4 – 5ft in length. See more pics here!
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Beachgoers watched in horror yesterday as a lifeguard was pulled off his board by a shark and mauled to death at Port St Johns’ Second Beach.
Witnesses said they saw his hands in the air for a short while before his whole body disappeared under the water and a red pool of blood was seen on the surface.
The 22-year-old’s remains have yet to be found. The victim’s name has been withheld until officials inform his family.
He’s the fourth person to die from a shark attack at the same beach in two years.
UPDATE: Tshintshekile Nduva, 22, of Noqekwana village in Port St Johns was the victim of the fatal attack. Second Beach remained closed for the weekend after the attack.
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The surfer who was killed yesterday in a shark attack at Glentana Bay in the Southern Cape was Gerhard van Zyl, 25, a Mossel Bay local. He was surfing with a friend at the small seaside village when the shark attacked.
National Sea Rescue Institute spokesperson Craig Lambinon said they were called out around 3.30pm, soon after the attack. Van Zyl’s lower right leg had been bitten almost completely off. When authorities arrived, a friend had pulled him out of the water, and had helped to tie a tourniquet around his injured leg.
Lambinon said NSRI volunteers, ER24 paramedic services, Netcare 911, the police, Metro ambulance and rescue services and a Red Cross AMS helicopter had been called to the beach.
“We found him on the beach and treated him for amputation to his right leg,” said Lambinon. “He was airlifted to a hospital in George and when he got there, was declared to be in a critical condition. He was later declared dead.”
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A 25-year-old man died after being attacked by a shark while surfing at Glentana Bay on Saturday.
The man had been surfing with a friend at the bay between Glentana and Outeniqua, near Mossel Bay when the attack happened just after 3:30 on Saturday.
His friend brought him to shore.
When emergency personnel arrived at the scene, they found the man had already had his right leg amputated below the knee from the shark bite.
Paramedics and other emergency workers carried out resuscitation efforts and the man was then taken to the George provincial hospital where he died. The family has been informed and are in close contact with the authorities.
It is not yet known what species of shark was involved in the incident.
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A great white shark may have been responsible for knocking a bodyboarder off his board just off Alkantstrand beach in South Africa on Tuesday.
Jeandre Nagel felt an extremely hard knock and was thrown off his board while paddling back towards the shore around lunchtime. He grabbed the leash, got back onto the board and paddled as fast as he could until he reached the beach. Jeandre’s board had a row of deep tooth marks on the underside.
The board was handed over to the Sharks Board Offices in Richards Bay on Friday morning, from where it will be sent to Durban for examination to determine the species and size of the shark involved.
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Turns out Wednesday’s shark attack victim, Paul Buckley, needed 150 stitches to close up the 15″ gash left by the shark. Buckley was surfing at Jongensfontein, South Africa when a 12 ft great white sunk its teeth into his leg. Ouch.
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Surfer Paul Buckley was attacked by a shark yesterday while riding the waves in Jongensfontein. South Africa. He was rushed to a hospital where his leg was stitched up.
The attack happened at 11:15 am off a beach frequented by surfers. He said until they examined the board for bite marks, they could not say what type of shark attacked Buckley or how big it was but something put a 10″ hole in the board.
A local witnessed the attack from the patio of his parents house and said he saw two surfers in the water and one starting thrashing around. Realizing there was a problem. he ran to the beach while his sister brought the car around.
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Swimmers and surfers fled the water yesterday after lifeguards spotted a shark off Gonubie beach, South Africa. The beach was immediately closed by lifeguards. Officials are monitoring the situation and might reopen the beach today.
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According to South Africa’s News24.com, a teenager died at Port St Johns after being bitten on the leg by a shark.
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said 16-year-old Luyolo Mangele was attacked by what is believed to have been a Zambezi shark on Saturday afternoon while surfing off Second Beach, Port St Johns.
Apparently, there was a scream and immediately after, a huge red spot appeared around Luyolo’s surfboard.
Luyolo tried to make it back to shore but lost consciousness when he reached shallow water. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.
UPDATE: Daily Dispatch Online posted these images of Luyolo that were taken just minutes before he was attacked.
A skipper on a tuna boat off Cape Point, South Africa got bit by a shark… just five minutes after explaining to his crew what they should do if a shark is caught in their nets.
The bite left Gabriel Fernandez, 40, with cuts on two fingers on his right hand and a 6cm cut on his right arm. He was pulling the shark in when it turned around and bit him.
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