A 68-year-old man was pulled under the water by a shark Wednesday in the Outer Banks — this time on Ocracoke Island.
Andrew Costello was swimming outside the first breaker about 25 feet offshore, directly in front of the lifeguard stand, when he encountered a gray shark about 7 feet long, Hyde County officials said. A lifeguard saw the shark pull Costello under the water. He suffered several bites to his rib cage, hip, lower leg and both hands.
A witness told CNN he saw a “trail of blood from water to the sand.”
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The sharks know the world is going to help.
ReplyDeleteHa! :)
DeleteHey, how about you swimmers staying OUT of the water for a couple or days or weeks ????
ReplyDeleteThat's like telling a diehard Southerner to take down his Confederate flag. :)
DeleteStrange indeed. Fishermen have been fishing off the piers for decades and then some.
ReplyDeleteBrock, are you at Ocracoke yet?
Then there is the flesh eating bacteria attacking flesh. Flesh eating bacteria in
salt water which was used for healing! Unbelievable.
I would say a happy 4th to you but I don't feel like it.
Thanks and no we don't go until the 16th and then for a week. We never go to the beach there as it's further away than the one in Emerald Isle here (just returned from my daily walk there) and the beaches are both beautiful, but we do enjoy the village and all that curtails. The only place I have found that actually carries banana ice cream, my favorite as a boy. :)
DeleteAll the so-called experts who have remarked on the NC shark attacks made
ReplyDeleteexcuses but the scientist who remarked yesterday stated these shark attacks
were highly unusual. Finally someone who states the truth on what we already
knew.
I read that there is less food further out this year and they are coming in closer to feed.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Makes sense.
ReplyDeleteCertainly.
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