Pakala – painting by Angela Headley
A 60-year-old man named only as Lorrin suffered minor injuries after being bitten on the left foot by a shark while surfing at Pakala’s on the west coast of Kauai, Hawaii. He estimated the shark to be around 10 feet.
The victim was taken to the Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital.
No other details were reported.
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Hawaii News Now
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Angela Headley
Thomas Floyd Kennedy recovers in a Maui hopsital after being bitten by shark while snorkelling
Thomas Floyd Kennedy, 61, was bitten on the thigh and lower left leg by a shark while snorkelling off Kihei, Maui, Hawaii. The incident happened around 9.40am about 250 metres offshore near Kihei.
The victim was treated on shore and taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center.
“Initially it didn’t hurt so much. It was mostly just fear of a second attack,” he was quoted as saying.
He said he was snorkelling with two others. They rode paddle boards to a spot more than 250 metres off the Kihei coastline.
Kennedy said he felt a tug and looked down to see his leg in the shark’s mouth.
“It released me. So I started swimming as fast as I could. I would guess I was a still a hundred yards from my board,” he said. “As I went further, I started to bleed. I could see a string of blood, which was my next concern.”
Crew from Wailea Canoe Club who were in the water at the time helped him to shore.
Kennedy and experts reckon it was 10 foot tiger shark that bit him.
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Maui News
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A shark attacked a 51-year-old woman from California about 20 metres off Makena Landing Beach Park, Maui, Hawaii. The incident happened on Saturday 27 October 2012. The woman was not named in press reports.
According to a report in Maui News the shark was estimated to be between 10 and 12 feet long, but the species was unknown.
The woman suffered non life-threatening injuries, including puncture wounds to her right inner thigh and lacerations to the front and back of her right hand from pushing the shark away.
The newspaper reported she was transported to Maui Memorial Medical Center in stable condition.
Sources:
Maui News
Sage St Clair suffered a small wound to her left calf from a shark bite at Kahana Beach, Maui, Hawaii
Sage St Clair, 16, suffered minor wounds to her leg from a shark bite while swimming at Kahana Beach, Maui, Hawaii. The incident happened at around 9.45 am on 26 June 2012 a short distance north of the surf spot called S-turns.
Sage suffered 10-12 cm gash to her left calf. Fire personnel treated the wound at the beach and her parents drove her to hospital.
She was sitting in shallow water when the shark bit her. The girl’s father was reportedly kneeling in the water next to her and felt something bump his lower back.
It is believed the shark was a small reef shark.
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Hawaii News Now
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Joshua Holley was bitten on the foot by a shark while surfing on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii
Joshua Holley, 28, was bitten on the left foot by a shark while surfing a spot called Alligator’s Reef, close to Leftovers and Chuns reef on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii. It is believed to have been a 10 foot tiger shark.
The incident happened around 12.30pm on Tuesday 3 April, 2012.
It is reported Holly was lying on his board waiting for a wave when a shark bit his foot.
Holly told TV media: “It was like this popping sensation on my foot. When I looked down I saw this huge dorsal fin and I saw the tail. And all of a sudden this shark comes around to like the front side of my board. I managed to get hold of his gills and hit it on the side of the nose and then he submerged.”
When he paddled in after the attack he was helped to shore by 2 strangers. He was treated on the beach and taken to Wahiawa General Hospital where he received 42 stitches.
It is reported he was due to be taken to Queens Medical Center to reattach two tendons.
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Hawaii News Now
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Theresa Fernandez - narrowly escaped a shark attack while surfing in Hawaii
Theresa Fernandez escaped inury when a shark bit down on the back of her surfboard while she was surfing at Lyman Beach, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The incident happened on Wednesday 25 May 2011 and comes three days after a paddle boarder and grandson were knocked off their board by a shark at Lyman Beach.
She told HawaiiNewsNow she said she was paddling out for one of her last waves of the day.
“There’s a big thud on the bottom of my board, and I’m thinking, ‘okay, we have encounters with turtles all the time’. And next thing I know, the thud is followed by a big yank from the back of my board, backwards and down.
“Half my board and my body went under the water, and I just started to paddle as strong as I could to try and get away.”
The shark let go and she paddle to shore and alerted others.
“I don’t think she got to have eye to eye contact with the shark like I did,” said Alayna DeBina, the paddle boarder who was knocked off her board three days earlier, “but from what I hear, she was surfing and luckily she had her legs up in the air on the board at that point, and the shark apparently bit her board from the back and shook it up real good and then let it go, probably because the skeg poked it in its mouth.”
A shark specialist studied the bite and said it appeared to be a tiger shark. The report said tests were still being done to determine the size of the shark.
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HawaiiNewsNow
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Alaina DeBina was paddle boarding with her 3-year-old grandson looking for turtles when a shark attacked the paddle board
knocking them into the water. Looking at the bite mark on the board experts reckon the shark was around 16-feet long. It was not identified in the report.
Experts reckon the bite mark on the paddle board was from a 16-foot shark
She thought she had collided with a turtle, but when she turned around in the water she was face-to-face with the shark.
She managed to hoist her grandson on to the board, climb on the board herself and paddle in. Neither of the two were injured.
She was quoted as saying:
“It’s really
nothing less than a miracle that both of us are fine through this whole thing. I mean, it could have been tragic.”
“It came up and took a taste of my board. It basically chomped on my board. Then it turned around and it was flashing its tail at me. That’s when I was screaming for my husband, ‘Shark, shark.’ I was petrified at that point.”
The incident took place on Sunday 22 May 2001 about 30 feet off Lyman Beach in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
No other details were reported.
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WFSA12 News
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