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The attacks on the Fourth of July on South Padre Island are believed to have come from the same shark. The shark is about six feet long, said Chris Dowdy, Texas game warden captain, KSAT reports.
A shark bit three people off a southern Texas beach in what the city's fire chief called an unprecedented incident on the Fourth of July, the same day another person was bitten by a shark in ...
The furthest west a white shark has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, ... Experts have identified a great white shark 200 yards off the shore of South Padre Island. Here's what we know.
Smith fell off the schooner Laura Lewis roughly 10 miles southwest of South Island Light, which lies at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama. Before help could reach him, a shark seized him and pulled him under the water. Several sharks were caught and killed in the vicinity over the next 12 hours, but none contained Smith's remains. [19] Frank G ...
The city was named Port Isabel in 1928, and in 1954, the Queen Isabella Causeway, the longest bridge in Texas, was constructed across Laguna Madre to South Padre Island. A newer bridge was built in 1974, [ 6 ] but part of it collapsed on September 15, 2001, after being hit by a barge, causing eight people to plunge to their deaths and ...
Due to the island being next to the ocean, temperatures above 100 °F (37.8 °C) are not common. South Padre Island went down to at least 25 °F (−4 °C) during the 2021 Texas freeze. Due to the fact that South Padre Island is surrounded by water, precipitation is a little higher than cities farther inland in the Rio Grande Valley. In March ...
Several people were bitten by sharks in separate attacks at Texas and Florida beaches on the Fourth of July, authorities said.
The shark attacks on Hilton Head, posted across several social media sites, had beachgoers questioning whether there is a rise in the species’ population. Experts say the answer is nuanced.