04/22/2007 Matthew Honyak (Florida)
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:00 pm
Shark bites 12-year-old at Hutchinson Island beach
By JEREMY ASHTON
jeremy.ashton@scripps.com
Updated at 7:17 p.m.
Updated at 7:20 p.m.
April 22, 2007
HUTCHINSON ISLAND — A shark gashed one of the feet of a boy Sunday in the surf off Waveland Beach just north of the line between Martin and St. Lucie counties.
The 12-year-old boy and at least three of his friends were riding bodyboards no more than 25 yards offshore around 12:30 p.m., witnesses said.
The adult supervising them had just called for them to come closer to shore when the boy cried out for help.
Witnesses said they saw a wound running the length of the boy's foot.
Paramedics took the boy to Martin Memorial Health Center for treatment. There was no update on his condition Sunday night.
Sunday's shark attack was the fourth in the waters off Hutchinson Island in the last six weeks.
On March 11, a 29-year-old surfer suffered deep cuts on his right forearm after an encounter with a shark off Tiger Shores Beach in Martin County.
Less than three weeks later, another adult surfer and a 9-year-old boy were bitten within an hour of each other on two St. Lucie County beaches.
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By JEREMY ASHTON
jeremy.ashton@scripps.com
Updated at 7:17 p.m.
Updated at 7:20 p.m.
April 22, 2007
HUTCHINSON ISLAND — A shark gashed one of the feet of a boy Sunday in the surf off Waveland Beach just north of the line between Martin and St. Lucie counties.
The 12-year-old boy and at least three of his friends were riding bodyboards no more than 25 yards offshore around 12:30 p.m., witnesses said.
The adult supervising them had just called for them to come closer to shore when the boy cried out for help.
Witnesses said they saw a wound running the length of the boy's foot.
Paramedics took the boy to Martin Memorial Health Center for treatment. There was no update on his condition Sunday night.
Sunday's shark attack was the fourth in the waters off Hutchinson Island in the last six weeks.
On March 11, a 29-year-old surfer suffered deep cuts on his right forearm after an encounter with a shark off Tiger Shores Beach in Martin County.
Less than three weeks later, another adult surfer and a 9-year-old boy were bitten within an hour of each other on two St. Lucie County beaches.
http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/local_news/ar ... 73,00.html