http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=36 Shark Attacks that happened in the year 1999 and earlier. <b>Statistics</b> : 49 Topics || 61 Posts Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:55:40 GMT http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/styles/prosilver/imageset/smooth_hammerhead_shark.png http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Google Yahoo MSN Sitemaps and RSS 2.0.0 - © 2006, 2007, 2008 www.phpBB-SEO.com 6 Shark Attacks that happened in the year 1999 and earlier. <b>Statistics</b> : 49 Topics || 61 PostsRSS 2.0 feed link http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/gymrss.php?forum=36&news&digest gym_sitemaps http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1407 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:55:40 GMT <h5><a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=36" title="1999 and Prior Shark Attacks">1999 and Prior Shark Attacks</a></h5> <b>07/26/1975 Gary Grace ( Australia )</b> Coast shark attack relived MICK Grace will never forget the day he saw his brother almost bitten in half by a shark at Maroochydore beach. As Western Australia’s surfing community mourns the victim of a fatal shark attack this week, Mick recalled the day his brother was almost taken by a white pointer 35 years ago. Mick was about 17 years old and was surfing with his older brother Gary and a few mates in front of the Sea Breeze Caravan Park. Mick had moved away from the group right before “all hell broke loose”. “We were sort of thinking we should go in and next thing: bang! This thing hit Gary from underneath, about 100 mile an hour,” Mick said. The shark pulled Gary and part of his surfboard under. “There was just a big splash. You didn’t know what to do.” Mick said the shark could only take the foam board “so far” before it had to release the board and Gary slipped out of its mouth, kicking furiously to the surface. “He was kicking and screaming when he came to the surface,” Mick said, before the shark came back at his brother. “It wanted to eat him. If he didn’t have his surfboard he would be dead. “(Gary) must have kicked it right in the mouth because he had a big tooth mark on his heel. And all I saw then was its big tail as it took off.” Gary’s mates paddled him to the sand and he was rushed to hospital where he needed about 160 stitches for the wound around his buttocks and legs. “He got to the beach and stood up. I was amazed he could stand up – I thought he would have been ripped in half,” Mick said. Gary miraculously survived, despite fears he would lose too much blood. He doesn’t talk about the attack much these days. In a Woman’s Day article in 1975, a few months after the incident, Gary told a reporter: “Without the board he would have chomped me in half. I couldn’t see its face. Just a big, grey-black mass and I kicked at it, screaming out ‘no, no, no’.” Gary told the magazine he was having nightmares about the shark, which he said “felt like wet and dry sandpaper”. “I didn’t feel any actual pain but I knew what was happening. I could feel him shaking me but I couldn’t feel him tearing into the flesh or anything. It was like a dog had got hold of my shirt and was shaking me. I thought I was gone,” Women’s Day reported. Mick (pictured below) said these days he still surfed as often as he could but the attack on his brother made him more aware in the water. In the weeks after the incident Mick said he “kept seeing things” coming at him in the water, which stopped him surfing for a little while. He said the fatal attack in WA should remind surfers of the dangers of murky conditions. “You’ve got to be alert in the water, always looking around and seeing what’s going on,” he said. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2010/08/21/shark-attack-scare-maroochydore-beach/">http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/st ... ore-beach/</a> <a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&amp;t=1407"><b>more ...</b></a> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 121 Views 1999 and Prior Shark Attacks - News - Digest http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1407 http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1399 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:48:00 GMT <h5><a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=36" title="1999 and Prior Shark Attacks">1999 and Prior Shark Attacks</a></h5> <b>07/25/1936 Joseph Troy Jr ( Massachusetts )</b> Mattapoisett was site of last fatal shark attack in Bay State: 1936 Martin Smith remembers July 25, 1936, as a fine summer Saturday, warm and clear. The tranquility was soon shattered. Smith, 13 at the time, had just finished lunch when he heard a commotion at the beach near his family's summer cottage in the Hollywoods section of town. What he witnessed that day — what became the last fatal shark attack in Massachusetts — has remained with him ever since. As he swam in the waters off the beach, Joseph Troy Jr., 16, a summer visitor from Dorchester, was grabbed and bitten by a 6-foot shark and dragged underwater less than 50 yards from shore. The badly injured youth was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford. He died on the operating table that night while surgeons were amputating his left leg. &quot;The Troys' cottage was just across the street from ours,&quot; Smith recalled. &quot;When I got down to the beach, Joseph was lying there with a great bloody wound in his thigh. He was moaning in shock.&quot; The boy, along with a family friend, had been swimming out from the beach to meet the Black Cat, a catboat that had just picked up its mooring after a morning sail, when the shark attacked, Smith said. The Black Cat's owner, Hubert Fisher, jumped into his dinghy and, with the help of the other swimmer, Walter Stiles of Boston, got the boy aboard and took him to the beach. Using an old wooden door as a stretcher, neighbors carried the badly injured teen to a car and he was rushed to the hospital. In the meantime, the people left aboard the Black Cat were still waiting to come ashore. Smith and a friend were ordered to clean up the blood from the dinghy so the passengers could be landed. It was not a pleasant task, and the events of that day have lingered long after. &quot;I never swam in deep water after that,&quot; Smith said. The wind had been from the southeast the day before the attack, he said, a condition that roils the bottom and results in poor visibility. That could have been a critical factor, producing an instinctive reaction from the shark when it saw the flash of a swimmer's white leg, Smith said he believes. The Standard-Times report of the incident said Joseph Troy was still conscious when he was wheeled into the operating room for the amputation. The attending surgeon, Dr. E.D. Gardner, said the boy told him he was horrified not so much by the bite as the thought of being dragged down while in the grip of the shark. In the aftermath of the attack, beaches around Buzzards Bay were deserted and swimming came to a halt along much of the Massachusetts coast, the newspaper reported. Although the attack was without precedent, sharks had previously been observed in Buzzards Bay. Just a week earlier, a 6-foot shark had been caught in Marion harbor. Although there have been no further attacks on humans locally, sharks still occasionally make their presence felt on SouthCoast. In September 1959, another big shark made local headlines when Russell Boardman, 15, of Mattapoisett, harpooned a 6-foot, 2-inch, 173-pound white shark off West Island from the bow of his father's 30-foot sportfishing boat. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100806/NEWS/8060340">http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbc ... WS/8060340</a> <a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&amp;t=1399"><b>more ...</b></a> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 270 Views 1999 and Prior Shark Attacks - News - Digest http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1399 http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1384 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:09:20 GMT <h5><a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=36" title="1999 and Prior Shark Attacks">1999 and Prior Shark Attacks</a></h5> <b>06/00/1960 John Brodeur ( New Jersey )</b> Shark attack!!! 50 years later, Readington man tells of having his leg mauled <div class="inline-attachment">sand_tiger.jpg</div> Sand tiger shark attacked a Readington man 50 years ago READINGTON TWP. -- In July 1960, a sand tiger shark attacked then 24-year-old John Brodeur and ripped through his right thigh as he stood in the ocean at the Sea Girt beach. 50 years later, the Readington Township resident is grateful he lived through it to experience 40 years of marriage with his wife Celine, and life with his four children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Share “I’m very happy with my life. It was just an incident along the way,” said Brodeur, a retired accountant, who has been featured in books about sharks and was once a guest on the “O’Reilly Factor.” Brodeur was told the shark had been a 12- to 17-foot sand tiger shark, judging from the teeth marks in his leg, At the time of the attack, he was standing farther out than other bathers, his feet firmly planted in the sand. “I ride waves and I was getting ready to ride a wave in,” Brodeur said. “I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.” “I saw this big black thing coming toward me — I thought it was a telephone pole,” he said. The shark was long and black, and there had been a bad storm earlier that week. When the shark bit him, Brodeur slapped the top of the shark’s head with his hand, and “eventually it let go,” he said. “The lifeguard pulled me out of the water and then dropped me in the sand,” Brodeur continued. “My right thigh was all torn open.” Celine Brodeur, who was not present at the time but knows the story well, said the young lifeguard panicked. “It’s not every day you get a shark attack,” she said. A Marine veteran named Norman Porter, from the Bronx, took his belt off and used it to apply a tourniquet to Brodeur’s leg to slow the bleeding until he could be taken to the hospital. Because his nerves were severed and he was in shock, Brodeur does not recall feeling much pain. He still thinks highly of Porter. “He saved my life. I was a lucky man.” Celine noted that Porter has passed away, “but he’s been my husband’s hero.” Brodeur’s leg had to be amputated, and he spent three months recovering in the hospital. Now with a prosthetic leg, he can’t run, but he can walk, and he enjoys playing tennis. “I still go to the beach,” he said. In fact, the Brodeurs and their children will be taking a family vacation in Cape May this summer. “He never, ever let one thing stand in his way,” his wife said. “It was never a handicap to him.” In spite of the attack, John said he has always loved swimming in the ocean. But he warns other swimmers to be careful, especially because it is not always true that sharks will only attack someone who is already bleeding. “Make sure that there are lifeguards, and other people in the water,” Brodeur warned. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2010/07/shark_attack_50_years_later_re.html">http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-demo ... er_re.html</a> <a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&amp;t=1384"><b>more ...</b></a> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 310 Views 1999 and Prior Shark Attacks - News - Digest http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1384 http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1373 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:52:23 GMT <h5><a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=36" title="1999 and Prior Shark Attacks">1999 and Prior Shark Attacks</a></h5> <b>00/00/1995 Karl Sacks ( South Africa )</b> Sacks, who lost part of his leg in 1995 in a shark diving trip off South Africa---- SHARK-BITE BENEFIT FRAUDSTER IS JAILED ABOVE: Karl Sacks was filmed on trek despite claiming too much benefit 9th June 2010 By Steve Hughes A MAN who lost his leg in a shark attack then claimed £40,000 too much in benefits has been jailed after going on a TV desert trek. Karl Sacks, 48, was caged for 10 weeks following his appearance on documentary Beyond Boundaries. The dad-of-three from Leeds pleaded guilty to five counts of benefit fraud for claiming severe disability allowance. He was involved in a coast-to-coast trek across the Nicaraguan desert on the BBC2 show in 2005. Sacks, who lost part of his leg in 1995 in a shark diving trip off South Africa, also claimed the benefit while working as a car salesman and profited from selling property. Leeds Crown Court heard he should have informed benefits bosses of his increased mobility. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/138921/Shark-bite-benefit-fraudster-is-jailed/">http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/13 ... is-jailed/</a> <a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&amp;t=1373"><b>more ...</b></a> <b>Statistics</b> : 2 Post || 265 Views 1999 and Prior Shark Attacks - News - Digest http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1373 http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1347 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:01:55 GMT <h5><a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=36" title="1999 and Prior Shark Attacks">1999 and Prior Shark Attacks</a></h5> <b>1986 - 11/04/1986 Dan Lund ( Florida )</b> <div class="inline-attachment">dan_lund.jpg</div> Stuart Surfer Dan Lund points to the right side of his foot where a shark bit him in 1986 causing wounds requiring 1,000 stitches. By CHRIS O’MALLEY STUART — A shark apparently bit a Jensen Beach man in the leg as the man was surfing Tuesday off Tiger Shores on Hutchinson Island. Daniel Lund, 23, was listed in satisfactory condition late Tuesday night in Martin Memorial Hospital following surgery. Hospital officials would not elaborate on the extent of the wound. The attack occurred about 2 p.m. as Lund was surfing with friends. Martin County Sheriff’s Deputy Becky Gifford said Lund had just finished riding a wave when he stepped onto a sand bar offshore. “He said he stepped in front of the shark or on the shark. He said he felt something pulling or grabbing on his leg,” Gifford said. “He jerked it away.” Lund’s friends took him to Jensen Beach EmergiCentre, Inc., where he was prepared for transportation to Martin Memorial. Lund had a flesh wound to his right leg, which looked like it could have been made by a shark, said Dr. Richard Barbaza at the EmergiCentre. Kurt Lund, the injured man’s brother, said Tuesday night his family was preparing to visit the hospital but he believed the wound was “not that serious.” The Sheriff’s Department did not close the beaches in the area, but notified lifeguards at Stuart Beach, said lifeguard Jim Shipes. “It’s unfortunate,” Shipes said. “He (Lund) was at the wrong place at the wrong time.” Shipes said people had spotted small sharks in the area, “but for the most part, sharks don’t come close.” He said sharks are not uncommon this time of the year as the fish they feed on migrate from the north to warmer waters. Devohna Goluba, who was fishing nearby, said her husband, John had caught a 3 1/2-foot-long shark along the shore earlier in the day and let it go. “We’ve seen quite a few fins out there,” she said. Sharks usually pursue smaller fish offshore, Shipes said. “They’re not into biting people.” When they do, “the sharks usually bite and let go.” Shipes said, in fact, that he worries more about being bitten by a bluefish — a popular sport fish that travels in schools and often goes into a frenzy when feeding. Surfers may be more appetizing because as boards are shortened, surfers may resemble sea turtles, Shipes said. Alex Ashford of Port Salerno was rubbing a disc of wax on his surfboard at Tiger Shores Tuesday afternoon and was undaunted by news of the attack. He has had some close calls with sharks before, but says, “As long as you leave them alone, they’ll leave you alone.” Shipes, who knows Lund, said: “I’m sure Dan will be back out as soon as he gets his stitches out.” <a class="postlink" href="http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/feb/04/1986-stuart-news-story-recounts-lifeguard-dan/">http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/feb/04/ ... guard-dan/</a> <a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&amp;t=1347"><b>more ...</b></a> <b>Statistics</b> : 2 Post || 292 Views 1999 and Prior Shark Attacks - News - Digest http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1347 http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1341 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:44:50 GMT <h5><a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=36" title="1999 and Prior Shark Attacks">1999 and Prior Shark Attacks</a></h5> <b>1997 - 08/24/1997 Scott Yerby ( California )</b> Scott Yerby never saw the great white shark before it attacked him as he surfed off Clam Beach near Eureka, Calif. &quot;This thing jumped me — it had enough force to lift me right out of the water. It was on my leg, I could see my femur, there was blood in the water — I knew then it was pretty serious,&quot; says Yerby, who was 29 at the time of the August 1997 attack. He hit the shark on the nose (the prescribed last-ditch defense, along with ripping at its gills), managed to get back on his board, and with his surfing buddy, paddled back to shore. By the time an ambulance got him to the hospital, doctors said, he had lost almost half the blood in his body and was close to death. As he recovered from his wounds in the hospital, many of Yerby's visitors asked him if he intended to go out and hunt down the shark that attacked him. &quot;I said I had no reason to — he was in his element,&quot; says Yerby. Yerby, a 29-year-old male Caucasian, was wearing a full black neoprene wetsuit and used a surfboard with a white underside and blue top. Yerby reported that the sky was clear, the air warm, the sea calm, the tide had ebbed (-1 m) and the water was warmer and clearer than he was accustomed to at that location. Yerby and a companion, David Yun, paddled out over a channel to ca. 70 m from shore; they were ca. 50 m apart. Between 1300–1330 Yerby left his board to discover the water depth (ca. 2 m), then returned to his board and sat upright upon it just beyond the surfline. “there was a splashing sound as the shark struck his surfboard, left leg and hand, biting deeply into the leg. The shark came up out of the water, shaking the surfer violently for several seconds. Yerby struck the shark’s head with his right hand, whereupon it released its grip and swam off. The shark was not seen again.” Yerby, assisted by Yun, paddled to shore. Upon arrival they were aided by two emergency medical technicians and a nurse who were picnicking on the beach. They administered first aid and then carried him to a nearby ambulance which transported Yerby to Mad River Community Hospital in Arcata. Yerby was alert and not in shock upon arrival, whereupon he was treated for severe lacerations to the tendons and muscles of his left hand and leg. He had lost ca. 5 pints of blood by the time he arrived at the hospital. Teeth had penetrated his leg to the femur and tibia and the wounds were arranged in a large crescent. Three shark tooth fragments were removed from his tibia and they, along with the measured intertooth distances, indicated that the attacker was an 4–5 m white shark (Yerby estimated the shark to be 3–4 m in length). The location of the attack, Moonstone Beach at the mouth of the Little River near Eureka, has now experienced four white shark attacks upon surfers. Eureka Times Standard <a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&amp;t=1341"><b>more ...</b></a> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 253 Views 1999 and Prior Shark Attacks - News - Digest http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1341 http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1289 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:49:10 GMT <h5><a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=36" title="1999 and Prior Shark Attacks">1999 and Prior Shark Attacks</a></h5> <b>08/05/1999 Charlie Adkins ( Florida )</b> Charlie Adkins, 62, of Wayne, was playing in waist-deep water Thursday morning near his Bethune Beach condominium in the 6200 block of South Atlantic Avenue when a shark mistook his right heel for a snack.--- CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH SHARK LEAVES VISITOR WITH SCAR, TALE Article 1 of 1 found Mark I. Johnson Staff Writer August 6, 1999; Page 03C Article ID: 9908060364 A West Virginia man has a real fish tale to tell friends about his vacation in Southeast Volusia this summer, and a scar to prove it. Charlie Adkins, 62, of Wayne, was playing in waist-deep water Thursday morning near his Bethune Beach condominium in the 6200 block of South Atlantic Avenue when a shark mistook his right heel for a snack. &quot;He was diving through the waves when he came up and yelled shark,&quot; said Adkins' wife, Joyce, who was swimming with Daytona Beach News-Journal <a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&amp;t=1289"><b>more ...</b></a> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 259 Views 1999 and Prior Shark Attacks - News - Digest http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1289 http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1217 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:00:41 GMT <h5><a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=36" title="1999 and Prior Shark Attacks">1999 and Prior Shark Attacks</a></h5> <b>06/14/1959 Robert Pamperin ( California ) ***Fatal***</b> <span style="font-weight: bold">Great White Shark Encounter: Death of a Skin Diver</span> By jimnigro Created Feb 6 2009 - 3:27pm There are annual reports of sharks attacking surfers, divers and, as of late, the lethal attack of a triathlete-in- training. The following account took place 50 years ago in Southern California waters and helped launch today’s intensive research and in-depth studies in shark behavior. I first read of the attack back in the early-seventies, possibly in “Blue Meridian” or “Blue Water, White Death.” The details in that first account were much the same as in the documented report available today. The major difference being the book claimed the surviving diver was beneath the surface when the Great White first appeared. In June of 1959, Robert Pamperin and Gerald Lehrer took their girlfriends to the beach at La Jolla Cove, California. The women stayed on the beach while their boyfriends went into the sea in search of abalone, an edible mollusk found in the Pacific. Pamperin, age 33, and Lehrer, age 30 were free diving – using only masks, fins and snorkels. They were without wet suits. The water was estimated between 30 – 40 feet deep. The depth indicates the men were exceptional skin-divers. In their quest for abalone the pair slowly drifted apart by 15 meters or more. Lehrer was near the sea floor when a very large shadow passed at extremely close range, blocking out a good deal of the sunlight filtering down. Looking up, Lehrer saw a huge fish with a white underside. Its large tail sweeping from side to side, the fish kept going, disappearing into a dense stand of kelp. A bit unnerved, Lehrer was making up his mind whether to continue searching for abalone or alert his buddy and head for ashore. Before doing either, he needed air. After Lehrer shot to the surface, he heard Pamperin shout for help. Thinking his friend might be having a leg cramp he turned in the direction of the shout and saw his companion with his head up and unusually high above the surface, minus his mask. In the next instant, he saw his friend disappear beneath the surface. Lehrer swam quickly toward where he last saw his companion, took a breath and dove. Twisting and turning in a sandy pocket on the bottom, was a large shark, estimated to be 7 meters (approx. 23 ft.) in length. Pamperin was in the shark’s mouth, his legs not visible, and being violently shaken from side to side. The predator’s large, triangular teeth – firmly clamped around Pamerpin’s torso, told Lehrer the shark was a Great White. After surfacing for air, Lehrer reportedly dove again, approached the shark and began waving his arms in a desperate and futile attempt to frighten it off. Realizing there was nothing he could do, Lehrer swam toward shore. About fifteen yards from the beach he was met by an onlooker who had come to help. William Abitz had been standing on an elevated rocky point overlooking the attack sight. “He (Pamperin) was thrashing his arms and looked to be running from something. Then he went under,” said Abitz . Within the hour a scuba diver dispatched from nearby Scripp’s Institute of Oceanography combed the sea floor and found no trace of the victim. Further investigation revealed three events may have aroused the Great White. Prior to Lehrer’s and Pamperin’s arrival at the cove, several fish had been taken by spearfishermen. Distress signals given off by speared fish may have been an attractant. Secondly, not far from La Jolla Cove was a harbor seal rookery, known prey of Great Whites. Lastly, and perhaps most significant, the previous evening a dead whale had washed up on the beach at La Jolla Shores, about a half-mile away. Currents and winds likely created a natural chum slick or “odor corridor” attracting the shark. Is the shark’s notoriety warranted? Do they swim about, endlessly looking to devour anything in their path? I’ve seen recent footage where a team of divers – one by one - exited a shark cage and swam among multiple Great Whites. The sharks, ranging in size from fourteen to sixteen feet, made what appeared to be curious, non-aggressive passes. Two of the divers actually placed their hands against the shark’s flanks as the big fish swam past. Like any wild creature, sharks are unpredictable. And we play the percentages whenever we enter their realm. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.thebatavian.com/blogs/jimnigro/great-white-shark-encounter-death-skin-diver/4427">http://www.thebatavian.com/blogs/jimnig ... diver/4427</a> <a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&amp;t=1217"><b>more ...</b></a> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 818 Views 1999 and Prior Shark Attacks - News - Digest http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1217 http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1179 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:39:52 GMT <h5><a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=36" title="1999 and Prior Shark Attacks">1999 and Prior Shark Attacks</a></h5> <b>11/29/1995 Kina Scollay ( New Zealand )</b> Shark attack survivor Kina Scollay Thirteen years ago, aged 22, Scollay was diving off the coast of the Chatham Islands when he was attacked by a five-metre great white.*** <span style="font-weight: bold">Shark attack survivor</span> Kina Scollay knows better than most the dangers of a shark attack. Thirteen years ago, aged 22, Scollay was diving off the coast of the Chatham Islands when he was attacked by a five-metre great white. He had been diving for paua when he accepted a dare to dive to the seafloor 18m below. He grabbed a rock from the bottom to prove he had made it. On his way back to the surface he was attacked. The shark's first bite hit his weight belt, and the second struck his leg. He managed to beat the shark off with the rock and get to the surface where he was helped into the boat by his friends who administered first aid. He received extensive gashes and was flown to Christchurch Hospital for emergency surgery. Yet Scollay refused to let the experience cower him and he has dedicated much of his time to documenting sharks, where he specialises in filming them underwater. He has worked on the shark tagging project with NIWA and the Conservation Department, and made a documentary film describing the then unheard-of behaviour of great white sharks hunting in packs. Now 35, Scollay does not want to talk about his attack, but wants to emphasise the low risk and the promising research being conducted into the behaviour of great whites. &quot;I'd hate to put a kid off swimming,&quot; he said. &quot;I still dive and I'm more aware of the risks than probably anyone and know a hell of a lot about white sharks - I've been working with them for twelve years ... I wouldn't dive if I thought it was unsafe and people can feel safe going swimming,&quot; he said. &quot;Your chances of getting attacked by a shark in New Zealand waters are absolutely bloody low no matter were you are.&quot; Scollay said that, while many shark sightings would be a case of mistaken identity, people should be wary of certain situations. &quot;Obviously people should be sensible if there is a shark sighting or if there is a whale stranding or something like that, perhaps you should be careful, but other than that I think the risks are absolutely minimal for most people on most beaches.&quot; &quot;All the New Zealand shark attacks, including mine ... have all been in high risk places that most people will never be,&quot; he said. Scollay said people should not be alarmed by an increase in shark sightings over summer. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4798275a7693.html">http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4798275a7693.html</a> <a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&amp;t=1179"><b>more ...</b></a> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 488 Views 1999 and Prior Shark Attacks - News - Digest http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1179 http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1167 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:54:22 GMT <h5><a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=36" title="1999 and Prior Shark Attacks">1999 and Prior Shark Attacks</a></h5> <b>04/24/1992 Mike Fraser ( Campbell Island )</b> <span style="font-weight: bold">Mike became the holder of a most dubious honour, namely being the most southerly ever recorded shark attack victim.</span> I really doubt Mike Fraser will forget the 24 April 1992. It was the day Mike became the holder of a most dubious honour, namely being the most southerly ever recorded shark attack victim. The fact a shark attack could occur at Campbell Island seemed strange. Campbell Island is located about 700km south of the New Zealand mainland, and is a sub Antarctic island. The water temperature can get very low, rarely above 9 degrees in the summer, (and around 7 degrees in April) and the average year round temperature on land is 6 degrees. The idea of White sharks at this location, must have seemed incredibly unlikely, especially when one considers the various species of cold water penguins and Southern Elephant seals found on the Island, along with birds such as the Antarctic Skua. <div class="inline-attachment">mike_fraser.png</div> Mike Fraser was working on Campbell Island at the Meteorological base. Sharks were presumably the furthest thing on his mind when he took to the water that day. Mike and four friends went for a snorkel at Middle Bay. Like most victims Mike never saw the shark prior to the attack, there were seals in the water, and he and his companions were content to snorkel with the animals. However something more ominous was near. The shark hit Mike on the side, and Mike temporarily disoriented surfaced and began to lash out in a flight or fight response. The shark removed Mike's arm and then as suddenly as it had appeared swam away. Mike may have initially seemed very lucky, however this was only just the beginning of Mike's battle for survival. The other swimmers obeyed their primal urges and swam for shore but one of his party, a lady named Jacinda Amey defied her own fear, waited for the shark to depart and then swam out towards where Mike was heavily bleeding. Unaware of where the shark had gone she began towing Mike back to the nearby shore, constantly aware that the shark may at any time return. Fortunately the shark didn't return and once on dry land Mike's injuries could be assessed. Mike had completely lost his right forearm and his left forearm was severely lacerated and appeared to be broken. Mike was also having trouble breathing and was still losing a lot of blood. There was no emergency exit from the Island, and with no proper hospital facilities on the island, Mike's immediate future looked bleak. A helicopter was despatched from New Zealand's South Island to rescue Mike. <div class="inline-attachment">mike_fraser2.jpg</div> Mike's companions did what they could for him until the helicopter arrived with a paramedic on board. This wait must have seemed like an eternity for Mike and especially the people waiting with him, who desperately tried to apply tourniquets to the affected areas. Mike then began the journey all the way back to the mainland. Mike fortunately survived this ordeal. Around a 2000 km round journey for the pilot. Jacinda Amey and the helicopter pilot John Funnell received awards for their bravery. About Amey the government said, &quot;Ms Amey displayed great courage and bravery with complete disregard for her own safety in going to Mr Fraser's assistance.&quot; She was awarded the New Zealand cross. Regarding Funnell they said &quot;On the evening of 24 April 1992 Mr Funnell, chief pilot of the Taupo-based New Zealand Rail rescue helicopter, a Squirrel, made a flight to uplift from the remote Campbell Island a man, Mr Mike Fraser, who had been attacked by a shark. Mr Funnell was accompanied by another pilot and a paramedic. The rescue operation successfully carried Mr Fraser to Invercargill Hospital, and he made a good recovery from his ordeal. The Squirrel touched down again at Taupo 25 hours after the request to make the trip. The flight over some 1200 kilometres of ocean was believed to be unprecedented anywhere in the world in terms of single-engine helicopter operations and was undertaken at considerable risk to those on board. Mr Funnell displayed bravery in undertaking this flight without which the shark attack victim would not have survived.&quot; <div class="inline-attachment">mike_fraser3.jpg</div> Four days later Mike was interviewed from his hospital bed, and said, &quot;irst I knew, it hit me on the side … I got back to the surface and I was face to face with a shark. I started using my knees and feet. … I thought my number was up. … It had a mouthful of my arm and had a feed. The fact my arm came off may have satisfied him a bit&quot; A fragment of a tooth recovered from one of Mike's wounds identified the attacker as the White shark. Not to be put off Mike was back three years later at the research station working. Understanding the attack in this instance is relatively straightforward I believe. Like most victims, Mike never saw the shark coming, and it hit him hard. It took a sample, in this instance most of his right arm, and then having analysed the meat, left the scene. This fits nicely into my opportunistic White shark theory. The white shark, which was employing it's usual hunting methods at a seal colony, i.e. surprise, realised upon biting the still fighting Mr Fraser, that the calorie content of the meat did not warrant a further attack, especially when a veritable smorgasbord of seals existed on the island. Contrast to Chile where the shark did press its attack due to lack of other viable food sources nearby. I would recommend catching a programme called 'When sharks attack' it was showed on sky tv in the UK. They take Mike back to Campbell, and he describes his attack. <div class="inline-attachment">mike_fraser4.jpg</div> <a href="http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&amp;t=1167"><b>more ...</b></a> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 597 Views 1999 and Prior Shark Attacks - News - Digest http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1167