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A shark bit a Maui surfer Friday and severed his leg, authorities said. The man, 61, was surfing off Waiehu Beach Park Friday morning when a shark bit him.
Maui, Hawaii: Tiger shark [149] Attack happened just before 8 a.m. in Honolua Bay, North Maui while the victim was on his surfboard. The shark's bite took a 17 inch-wide chunk out of the surfboard. The victim was hospitalized and in stable condition, but after undergoing surgery his condition deteriorated and he died the following day. [150]
A surfer who was killed in a suspected shark attack in Hawaii has been named by authorities, as his friends and family paid tributes. Jason Carter, 39, died Saturday after what police called a ...
A 61-year-old surfer in Hawaii managed to begin swimming toward shore after a shark bit off a portion of his leg near a beach on Maui, witnesses and authorities say.
His right leg was “completely severed just below the knee,” Maui County said in a news release. The man was alert while being treated on shore and then taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center in critical condition. The man said he did not see the shark approach, authorities reported. The incident prompted officials to close the beach park.
The Hawaii man was taken to a hospital, where he later died, authorities say.
Mike Spalding (born 1947) is a marathon swimmer, and one of only two people to have swum all nine channels of the main Hawaiian Islands. [1] He lives on Maui.. On March 16, 2009 Spalding became one of the few humans to be attacked by the deep water cookiecutter shark.
This is a list of fatal shark attacks in Australia. The Australian Shark-Incident Database has recorded that between 1791 and April 2018 there were 237 fatal shark attacks in Australia. [ 1 ] In the two years of 2020 and 2021 there were 11 fatal shark attacks in Australia.