FATAL — 23 August 2011 – Lookout Beach, Plettenberg Bay, South Africa – surfer attacked
A 49-year-old surfer (name not reported) has died from wounds to his leg after being bitten by what is believed to be a great white, while surfing at Lookout Beach in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. The incident at 9.11am on Tuesday 23 August 2011.
According to the brief report, witnesses said the man’s leg was badly injured. The National Sea Rescue Institute said doctors spent several hours trying to save the man, but failed.
ZigZag reports: He saw the shark, which from reports was not a big shark, and shouted to warn the others. The shark then turned on him, and took him first on the top of the leg, possibly severing the femoral artery. It then pulled him under and took him on the bottom of the leg.
No other details were reported.
We await more details and will provide an update later.
Sources:
News24
Tags: fatal, Great White, Keurbooms River, Lookout Beach, Plettenberg Bay, shark attack, south africa, surfer
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24 August, 2011 at 12:02 am
Wow… just found your site and not gonna lie… been very intrigued. Just finished catching up on all your posts and by the time I finished, read this latest one! How crazy. I don’t know much about sharks or attacks other than what I watch on Shark Week each year, but is seems like there are more and more attacks… do you think it has anything to do with more human interaction? In one show during shark week, they said that a fatal attack on a woman in Egypt and several attacks we possibly related to people feeding the shark… since the shark went for the hands and the back side where food was kept. In all of these episodes I watch during shark week, they are constantly throwing chum in the water and swimming with the sharks… since more and more people are jumping in the water with sharks on caged dives and free swim, are the sharks learning to associate humans with food? I’m probably way off base but I just wonder that sometimes.