News of 1990 - 1999 Shark Attacks and Related Incidents

LOUISE SOURISSEAU was snorkeling with her friend Martha Morrell on the Hawaiian island of Maui when Sourisseau felt the rough skin of a tiger shark dragging across her calf. Sourisseau watched in horror as the 10-foot-long shark swam past her and repeatedly attacked her friend, biting off both her legs and an arm. Morrell, the 42-year-old wife of a plantation owner, died instantly on that November day in 1991.

Snorkeling with a female companion at ...

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 ...

Scott Yerby never saw the great white shark before it attacked him as he surfed off Clam Beach near Eureka, Calif.

"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," says Yerby, who was 29 at the time of the August 1997 attack. ...

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 ...

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.***


Shark attack survivor

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 ...

Mike became the holder of a most dubious honour, namely being the most southerly ever recorded shark attack victim.


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 ...

NEAL Stephenson lost his right lower leg in a great white shark attack off Plettenberg Bay 10 years ago, but that has not dampened his adventurous spirit.**


Shark attack survivor Neal dives into new challenges

Timothy Twidle GARDEN ROUTE CORRESPONDENT

NEAL Stephenson lost his right lower leg in a great white shark attack off Plettenberg Bay 10 years ago, but that has not dampened his adventurous spirit.

Stephenson, 22 at the time, was attacked while ...

Thursday, April 16, 1998, Florida Keys:

Kevin Morrison, a 16-year-old from Rockford, Illinois, received a hearty spring-break welcome from local fauna while scuba diving with his father off the Keys near Marathon. Seeing a three-foot-long nurse shark swimming past him, young Kevin thought it would be neat to grab a shark by its tail, so he did. Instantly, the shark whipped around, sank its teeth into the boy's chest, and refused to let go — ...

Monday, July 21, 1997, Transkei Coast, South Africa:

Mark Penches was six months into the trip of a lifetime, having quit his job for an epic round of globe-hopping and adventure travel. Already the 25-year-old Sydney resident had surfed in Bali, Portugal, and Greece; hiked in Nepal; toured North Africa; and visited relatives in Scotland before hooking up with two fellow surfers at Breezy Point, a renowned beach on the rugged Eastern Cape, near Umtata. ...

Heather Boswell attacked by Great White shark off Chile while swimming


Wednesday, March 23, 1994,
South Pacific Ocean:
"I felt something grab my leg and jerk me," recalled Heather Boswell, a 19-year-old Seattleite who had signed on for a six-month term working in the galley of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research ship Discoverer. Boswell and several of her shipmates were taking a break, swimming in balmy waters some 300 miles east of Easter ...