south carolina barrier island outter sandbars.

the plus side to that story is they were out there for awhile on a submerged sandbar without being eaten by a shark

 

I imagine, if true, those guys would have a new found respect for the ocean.

 

Not to Jinx us, but that was a little girl who got a mild bite right? That was the only reported attack in these SC waters in decades...

The beach I surf regularly hear gets cleared out a couple times each spring. We were down there in April and there were schools of sharks about 10 yards off shore.

I have a restaurant on the water on the intercoastal waterway (bayside) and I catch black tips and sting rays all day off our pier when I go fishing... Just little guys though...

 

The picture I attached is from the Cape Romain shoal - it's a picture of a local Dr in Charleston.

As for shark attacks, until recently, South Carolina held the world record for a tiger shark 1,780lbs, caught from the Cherry Grove pier - a pier, not offshore.

During leatherneck nesting, big tigers are here, our water is just too murky to see them - thank goodness. There are plenty of swimmers and surfers who 'go missing' during nesting season and I often wonder, are they victims of one of the largest predatory sharks in an area known for producing the largest of the species or where they overcome by the rip currents that choppy 2 foot waves generate? Sometimes, boards are recovered, but very rarely a body. Who's to say? But I for one, do not surf our outer shoals, inlets or river mouths when turtles are nesting.

 

I'm not a turtle.

 

And ain't scared .

 

MacGyver would be oh so proud. You'd think those kind of smarts would have kept them out of trouble in the first place.