A man who was bitten by a shark off Eyre Peninsula in South Australia is recovering in the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
The man, 47, from Sceale Bay was surfing at Back Beach near Streaky Bay when he was bitten on his right arm.
Another surfer Jeff Schmucker said the man was pulled from the water by other surfers.
“The guy I ran into up the top he said there’d been a shark attack, he was yelling at me and he was definitely panicking,” he said.
“By the time I saw the other six guys that carried the victim on a surfboard they were shaken up and obviously quite puffed at getting through the heavy sand with carrying a guy on a surfboard.”
Locals think a bronze whaler shark may have attacked the surfer.
A man swimming Monday off the Massachusetts coast reportedly suffered deep cuts to his ankles in a shark attack.
The scary scene at Ballston Beach in Truro shook up witnesses and first responders, who later bandaged up the unidentified victim and took him to the hospital.
Truro Fire Chief Brian Davis said that while the lacerations looked serious, they weren’t life threatening, nor was it likely the man would lose his limbs, the Cape Cod Times reported.
Authorities say a 6-year-old boy was bitten by a shark near the Juno Pier in Juno Beach. West Palm Beach television station WPTV reports the incident happened about 7 p.m. Tuesday. Jupiter police told WPTV the child was bitten in the upper thigh. Authorities say the boy was taken by helicopter to St. Mary’s Medical Center. His condition was not known.
Authorities said a teenager was taken to the hospital after being bitten on the foot in the ocean.
Myrtle Beach police Capt. David Knipes told the Charlotte Observer that the teen was standing in waist-deep water when his foot was bitten. The 16-year-old was transported to the hospital with minor injuries.
The teen was in the water at Sixth Avenue, which is four blocks away from where a boogie boarder was bitten by a shark at 7:45 p.m., on June 3.
Last week four people were bitten at different locations at Myrtle Beach within a ten-minute time frame.
Capt. David Knipes of the Myrtle Beach Police said the city’s Beach Patrol tells him the number of bites are way up, reports SCNow staff.
Photos of the bites have been sent to researchers at the University of Florida to determine exactly what the source was of those attacks. Photos of this most recent attack will also be sent to the university.
A victim from last week, 16-year-old Jordon Garofalo from Canton, Ohio, said his doctor was pretty sure it was a shark because of the bite marks.
Garofalo told WMBF he was in a state of shock. “I never saw anything,” he said.” That’s why it took me by surprise when all of a sudden there was something latched on to my foot.”
If confirmed, this attack today would be the possibly seventh shark bite within a 60 mile radius, this month. Two have been confirmed, one in Myrtle Beach and one that occurred earlier Tuesday, at Ocean Isle Beach in North Carolina.
