Surfer Describes Moment He Was Attacked by a Shark
A 57-year-old surfer was bitten twice by a bronze whaler shark while surfing; he required 50 stitches and emergency surgery, police said the injuries are not life-threatening.
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Man Bitten Twice by a Shark Drives Himself to the Hospital with Serious Leg Injury
The shark attack occurred at D'Estrees Bay, Kangaroo Island, in Australia, on Tuesday, Oct. 7by wildestanimal/Getty Bronze whaler shark (stock image)NEED TO KNOWOn Tuesday, Oct. 7, a man in his 50s was attacked by a shark at D'Estrees Bay, Kangaroo Island, in AustraliaAccording to local reports, he was bitten on the leg when a seal used him "as a decoy" to escape a bronze whaler sharkThe incident comes less than five years after a 29-year-old su…
Surfer Bitten Twice by Shark After a Seal Used Him as a Decoy » Explorersweb
BY COOPER GEGAN Most shark bites happen by accident. Though Jaws has led to the popular narrative of sharks as man-hunting, killing machines, one prevailing theory states that a number of shark encounters are simply the result of mistaken identity -– cases in which sharks mistake humans for seals or other prey. But as one Australian man found out recently, some seals may be purposefully deceiving sharks into making that mistake. The incident occ…
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