A spearfisherman (name not released) received minor lacerations to his knee after a shark bit him while he was spearfishing off Green Island, New South Wales, Australia. The incident happened on 2 December 2012.
He was taken to Port Macquarie Base Hospital with minor injuries, which did not require stitches.
According to other divers, the victim had a dead fish attached to his weight belt, which attracted the shark.
No other details were reported.
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News.com.au
Marcelino Riglos recovers in hospital after being bitten on the foot by a shark while spearfishing off Maui.
Marcelino Riglos, 30, was bitten on the foot by a 12-15 foot tiger shark while spearfishing with a friend in waters about 300 metres offshore of Waiehu Golf Course, Maui, Hawaii.
He was coming up for air when the shark clamped on his right foot and started shaking it from side to side.
“I started whacking it in the face with my hand,” he was quoted as saying. “My foot was dangling and blood was shooting all over the place.
“I thought I was going die out there. (It) was crazy.
With the help of his friend they tied a tourniquet with dive gear to stop the bleeding. They shed their floaters and spear guns, and swam back to shore which took a hair-raising 25 minutes.
He was taken to hospital where he received surgery for his wounds.
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Maui News
Tevita Naborisi, 20, was bitten on the right side of his head by an unidentified shark while spearfishing with a group at Matacucu Reef near Taveuni, Fiji.
The incident took place on May 16, 2012.
His cousin who was in the spearfishing group said Naborisi strayed from the rest of the group before the shark bit him.
“He had speared a donu when the shark attacked him from his right side,” his cousin is quoted as saying.
“The shark bit his head but he managed to fend the shark away.
“The shark had bitten into the right side of Tevita’s temple in the first attack. The shark came around a second time but Tevita managed to push the shark away.”
Naborisi swam 50 metres to the nearest man in the group who then called the boat which was another 50 metres away.
According to the report Naborisi was recovering at Waiyevo Hospital in Taveuni.
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Fiji Times
Charles Wickersham recovers in hospital from a shark bite.
Charles Wickersham was spearfishing with several friends in the Gulf of Mexico off Anna Maria Island on Saturday afternoon, 24 September 2011 , when a suffered a severe crescent-shaped bite wound about 15 inches long after bull shark bit him on the left thigh. His friends got him back to the boat and took him ashore where paramedics airlifted him to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg.
Rescue officials said he lost a lot of blood, but his injuries were not life-threatening.
Experts estimate the bull shark was about 6-feet long.
Wickersham’s mother was quoted as saying:
Nobody saw it coming. They said it was pretty horrific.
And they heard CJ [Wickersham] scream, and he said ‘I’ve been bit by a shark!
He came up to take a breath, he thought one of the guys punched him in the leg, he felt this really hard force in his left leg, he was looking to his right in the water, looking down to see if he could see any more fish, saw the shark, punched him in the nose and thank God, he let go and they pulled him in the boat.
One of Wickersham’s friends was quoted as saying:
He didn’t even see it, just bit him right in the thigh gave him about a 14-inch laceration. The shark came up took one bite, realized it wasn’t anything he wanted, let go and was gone. The water turned just blood red. Gave him just a ten-foot diameter, just like pure blood, it was bleeding pretty fast.
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Cefor Lewis was bitten by a shark while spearfishing off the Turks & Caicos
When I turned the boat to go to him, I saw a shark lift him high out of the water.
Cefor Lewis, 35 suffered a large bite to his right mid calf from a shark attack while spearfishing between Providenciales and French Cay, Turks & Caicos, Caribbean Sea. The incident happened on Sunday 19 June 2011.
Lewis was with his brother who was in a boat. According to a report, they sailed up to French Cay at about 10am when Lewis jumped overboard to do some spearfishing.
His brother said Lewis wanted to shoot a shark and his brother warned him not to.
A few minutes later he resurfaced “yelling and screaming”.
“When I turned the boat to go to him, I saw a shark lift him high out of the water,” his brother said.
He said the shark was about 5 feet long – and not a tiger shark.
He pulled Lewis into the boat.
“There was a lot of blood. The only thing I could tell him was: ‘You’re a Christian man, you aren’t gonna be dead’,” he was quoted as saying.
It took about an hour to get back to Providenciales where an ambulance was waiting to take him to Cheshire Hall Medical Centre for treatment. Doctors said he suffered considerable blood loss during the boat trip, but they managed to stabilise him with two units of blood. He underwent surgery to save his leg.
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Warren Smart died from a shark attack while spearfishing
Warren Smart, 28, died from bite wounds to his thigh received from a shark attack while spearfishing at Leven Point, 23km north of Cape Vidal and 57km south of Sodwana, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
The incident happened on Saturday 21 May 2011.
The shark is presumed to have been a Zambezi (bull) shark.
Smart was diving with two friends when the attack happened around midday. His friends managed to hoist him onto the dive boat and they raced to shore. He died from blood loss while medics on shore were attending is wound.
According to media reports, Smart had speared a king mackerel about 12m down and was in the process of pulling it towards him to get it off the spear. But then the shark, which had been after the struggling fish, struck, biting Smart on the thigh.
His diving friend was quoted as saying: “It all happened in a split second. Warren did not see the shark in time.
“But by the time we pulled him into the boat, he had already lost so much blood from his artery.”
It took them about 40 minutes to reach the shore.
Ambulance services were waiting for them and an air ambulance arrived about five minutes later.
Medics tried to stabilise him but could not get a drip in because Smart’s veins had collapsed from a loss of blood.
Smart was declared dead an hour later, according to the report.
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Trevor Burgher, 37, was bitten on the left calf while spearfishing with a friend near Palm Beach on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The incident happened on 4 May 2011.
Burger told the Witness newspaper:
“I am so lucky. I felt the pressure on my leg. I felt the shark shake it but, as I turned around to look, the shark let go of my calf and simply swam away.”
“It was almost an investigative bite.”
Burger told the newspaper he was spearfishing in the early morning with a friend and that he had just surfaced with a fish about 30 metres from their boat when the shark attacked him.
“We had bandages on the boat and then got to shore as fast as possible.”
He was taken to Netcare Margate Hospital where he received 58 stitches (another report says he received 24 stitches) and was reported in a stable condition.
No other details were reported.
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