ouch http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/sfl-warning-graphic-content-shark-attack-victims-wounds-20140601,0,4007187.photogallery?index=sfl-img-8626-20140601
The intracoastal waterway, i'm always more worried about sharks there than in the surf. Nasty bite though, yikes!
Did you guys see it? They said something about her large gash. I clicked through the pics but they just showed the shark bite.
Hit n Run. WAY too big for a lemon shark. Blacktips are the most common down there, they have blacktips like NYC has rats. It's hard to gauge the size of it, can't tell how tall the chick is. 1/3rd of her shin, just smack in the middle. Whatever it was, didn't like how she tasted. That's a quick on and off taste test. She's lucky he didn't nail her popliteal, chick wouldn't have made it to the hospital that's for damn sure.
Holy *&^%^$^%$%^$%^$! That is brutal. She is SUPER lucky with that one. Good lord man. I will have to search around online and see what she was doing. Swimming, whatever. That is an INSANE wound. Not sure how the intracoastal waterways are down there, but if it is freshwater coming into the saltwater, then the most likely cuplrit would be a bull, but if its all saltwater, man it could be anything down there. That aint no blacktip... probably not a lemon. Maybe a HUGE sand tiger.... But they got a little of everything down there. Gives me the heebie jeebies.
That's a nasty looking bite. In the full article, one of the people she was with said he thought it was a 4 foot bull: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-lauderdale-shark-bite-20140601,0,7015876.story Sunrise Blvd. is about two miles from Port Everglades Inlet, near my home break on the rare occasion that we get waves. Too close for comfort. Time to roll out the shark nets and let the culling begin. Where's that apex predator when you need him?
She was being pulled behind the boat on an innertube. Most likely a bull shark. Lemons like deepwater, but they come into shore on upwellings, in search of kingfish. They get real big too, like 8 feet. Once a kid got atacked by one at the public beach in waist high water. His dad pulled the shark off him, but he had to get over 1100 stitches in his back and side. I went to jr. high school with him. Lemon sharks are mackerel sharks and close cousins of the Great White. The have an olive colored dorsal fin. If you see one, get out. They can be man eaters. Like shark hunters wife.
gonna need 55 gallon drum of 'mederma.' two summers ago a bull shark was swimming past the end of my street which is 4 miles inland. same summer one was caught on hook/line about 15 miles up the mullica river in e.h.city.
