http://www.staradvertiser.com/2016/...-recounts-shark-attack-reschedules-honeymoon/ ASSOCIATED PRESS In this Friday photo provided by Kari Feinstein, surfer Federico Jaime poses for a photo from his hospital bed in Wailuku. A surfer says he’s grateful to be recovering in a Maui hospital after a shark bit him — even though the attack forced him and his wife to postpone their honeymoon. Federico Jaime was surfing Friday at a beach about two blocks from his Paia home when he felt a shark chomp down on his left arm, he recalled today from his room at Maui Memorial Medical Center. “It just came out of nowhere,” he said. “I saw the shark right in my face. It grabbed my arm— my left arm. It was really violent.” He knew he had been bitten. “I could see my arm was pretty much destroyed,” Jaime said. “I hit it with my hands and my legs. I don’t know what I did.” Then, he said, he felt something pull on his left leg. At the time, he didn’t realize the shark had bit him a second time. Jaime, who supposed to leave for a Tahiti honeymoon on Saturday, started screaming. Nearby surfers helped get him to shore. One of them used a surfboard leash as a tourniquet. Professional surfer Matt Meola was on the beach when he saw the surfers suddenly paddle toward Jaime, who he recognized as a regular at Hookipa Beach Park. “I just ran down with my phone. I saw that he was probably going to survive,” Meola said. “I probably wouldn’t have filmed if he was dying. But I thought he was going to be OK so I started filming.” Meola said he continued filming as Jaime calmly rinsed in a shower before paramedics arrived “freakishly fast” and whisked him into an ambulance. “He was pretty excited to see the footage I got,” Meola said. Jaime said with a laugh that he watched it “a thousand times.” It’s surreal to watch, he said: “I’m really lucky. I’m super positive.” The 5-foot reef shark bit Jaime when he was about 50 yards from shore at a surf spot known as “H-Poko,” according to the Maui Fire Department. Jaime said he knows that October accounts for the greatest number of Hawaii shark bites. University of Hawaii researchers say this may be because female tiger sharks migrate south from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to give birth. An influx of hungry pupping sharks may boost the likelihood of a bad encounter with a human. The attack won’t diminish his passion for surfing, said Jaime, 36, who moved to Maui from Argentina about six years ago. After three-hours of surgery on Friday, Jaime can move all his fingers and can feel his forearm muscle working. But he’ll need another surgery on Wednesday to repair a tendon, he said. He and his wife — married for about a year — will go on their honeymoon when he’s feeling better. [video=youtube;kMGJnngplpA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGJnngplpA[/video]
Oregon surfer details shark attack that nearly took his leg http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oregon-surfer-details-shark-attack-that-nearly-took-his-leg/ PORTLAND, Ore. -- An Oregon surfer who was attacked by a shark earlier this month says the huge animal felt like “grainy sand paper” as he struggled to free his leg from its mouth. Joseph Tanner told CBS affiliate KOIN on Wednesday that his entire leg was in the shark’s mouth and he punched its gills to get free. The 29-year-old was attacked while surfing Oct. 10 near Cannon Beach off the Oregon coast by what experts say was likely a great white shark. Tanner spent nine days in the hospital and had three surgeries on his leg. Tanner, a trauma nurse, swam to shore after the attack and instructed others how to tie a tourniquet around his mangled leg. They used the leash of Tanner’s surfboard and square knots for the tourniquet, Oregon State Police said. But the traumatic incident isn’t slowing Tanner down. He told KOIN he’d go back to surfing once he is recovered. He also has some advice for other surfers. He said surfers should know their blood type, learn how to tie a tourniquet and be aware that the shark population feeds at dusk and dawn. Warning: Graphic image of Tanner’s injury can be seen below. [video=youtube;fZjxZ_-ms44]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZjxZ_-ms44[/video]
dude needs to tell them how to do some better stitchwork. know their blood type? what for? don't have volume hither at the workplace
