Posted on 07/05/2014 8:41:21 PM PDT by wonkowasright
A 7-foot-long shark attacked a swimmer Saturday at Manhattan Beach, causing serious injury and prompting authorities to use helicopters and boats to evacuate throngs of people taking to the water on a busy 4th of July holiday weekend.
The incident happened about 9:30 Saturday morning, said photographer Eric Hartman, who saw the victim carried from a lifeguard vehicle on a backboard into an ambulance near the first lifeguard station south of the Manhattan Pier.
(Excerpt) Read more at culvercity.patch.com ...
Are YOU thickheaded? The shark attack was in CALIFORNIA. Try reading. Or don’t YOU understand English?
Spoken like a true New Yorker, lol.
“At the link the details emerge that also fishing from this beach was a guy who catches sharks. So you had a guy fishing for sharks in the water at the swimming beach. He hooked on. It got honked off and chomped some poor swimmer.”
Heard yesterday that the fishermen were chumming the waters to draw in sharks.
I did the same in the harbor off San Kaien in Yokohama.
California.....great weather......great wine......Great Whites.
Great White is a bigoted name. Let’s rename them. How about “Redskins”?
“There were lasers on its head!”
“Frikin lasers!”
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