The 16-year-old was paddling his surfboard about 500 feet offshore just north of Ponce Inlet at 1:20 p.m. Thursday, according to an incident report.
About 200 surfers were in the water that day, as the massive Hurricane Larry churned more than a thousand miles away, bringing large swells to the Florida coast.
Whether it’s Jaws or Shark Week, there’s a fascination and fear anytime the words “shark attack” are on a screen. So, for our purposes, let’s remove that phrase.
We start July 27, with a bite on Tybee Island in Georgia. Then, this Tuesday, Aug. 3, another bite on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina.
Some of you may be thinking, “two bites in two weeks, I’m not going in the ocean.”
Jordan Prushinski and her family told WBRE-TV that they were on vacation Monday at the beach in Ocean City when
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.
A Brazilian beach-goer is lucky to be alive after a shark chomped his behind near the same spot that a drunk man was killed while peeing a week earlier.
The victim was fortunate that he didn’t get his leg “torn off,” reported Jacobina Noticias of the flank attack
Experts say there’s no evidence sharks are more prevalent in shallow water. Even if it may seem like there are more shark attacks closer to the shore this year, the numbers don’t show anything different this year than in previous years.
So far, none of the attacks in 2021 have
Nemanja Spasojevic thought he hit the jackpot.
While snorkeling and fishing for dinner in Gray Whale Cove off the San Mateo County coast about 9 a.m. on June 25, he came across the rare sight of five Dungeness crabs climbing on top of each other in the underwater sand.
“I said ‘wow’ to myself,” Spasojevic said. “It’s like striking a gold mine.”
Savoring the moment, he started picking the crabs
A 16-year-old North Carolina boy is recovering from a terrifying shark attack that left some 40 teeth prints in his thigh during a family trip to the Outer Banks on Thursday.
Nick Arthur, who lives in Oak Ridge, NC, was playing on a sand bar with his sister about 25 feet offshore when …..