Autopsy: Shark killed man who washed up in Kill Devil Hills (Late Night Swim in NC)

Pilot Online.com ^ | September 18, 2009 | Cindy Clayton/Patrick Wilson

[Rebelbase]

"When Snead hadn't returned from his swim shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday, his family reported him missing,"

This was in the northern NC Outer Banks. Do not get into the water much over your knees between 4:00pm and mid morning which is prime time for sharks. They are out there and hungry.

[AnAmericanMother]

Yikes. I would hate to be the beachwalker who discovered the mangled body. THAT would cause me to bring my breakfast right back up then and there.

[capt. norm]

Doesn't necessarily mean the shark(s) killed him. Sharks like to munch on helpless or dead things. If he had drowned, the same thing would have happened to his body.

In other words, he was on their menu regardless of whether or not he was alive. There's no way a shark will pass up a meal that's already dead.

[Jacquerie]

I’ve seen six foot hammerheads in three feet of water on the north Gulf coast.

The seas are not Disney World. The critters are real.

[AnAmericanMother]

ME said he was alive when he was bitten.

He may have been in trouble, but he wasn't dead . . . yet.

His body drifted a long way though. Must be quite a longshore current there.

[TalBlack]

Crap! This poor guy lived the intro to the movie “JAWS”. God be with him.

[Gabz]

The ME’s report confirmed he had not drowned before the shark attack.

[mware]

Brody School of Medicine

What are the odds of the autopsy being done at the BRODY school of medicine.

Those who are Jaw's trivia experts will get the connection.

[capt. norm]

A shark paid me to say that.

I thought I was getting a candygram.

[Harold Shea]

Yeah,you and me too. I suspect he didn`t have to get all that close before he turned around tho.

Thinking of that story of the Indianapolis in WW2

[Young Werther]

There’s something not Wright about this story!

[Vendome]

Kill Devil Hills?

How in the Sam Hill did a shark kill a man on a Hill.

[Jeff Chandler]

Bush’s Fault.

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s sort of cool to swim in the ocean at night, especially if you encounter phosphorescent plankton. It sparkles when you swim through it, like Disney pixie dust or something. Loved to do it when I was in college.

But, anyone who’s ever spent time out on the fishing piers knows just how many sharks actually are out there. I rarely go in above my knees now, and never at night.

[AnAmericanMother]

My problem is that I'll say to myself "Is that what I think it is?" and then get close enough to say " . . . urph, yeah . . . "

I've done that with dead cows and sheep but never with a dead human. And I always seem to be downwind . . . .

My F-I-L was in the Pacific but on dry ground at Saipan and Iwo . . . my dad was in the N.Africa/Italy campaign.

[D_Idaho]

“This was no boating accident!”

[wombtotomb]

LOL. I thought this might be satire as I scanned the article and saw that.

My sisters, brothers and I will STILL call each other to let them know that Jaws is on TV all these years later. We all have the dvd, we just love to watch it all together while its on TV. Kinda connects us across 3 states :)

[Godebert]

Scary stuff. Just last week I was vacationing in Avon. Something brushed against my leg about 75 yards off shore near Hatteras lighthouse and spooked me.

[mware]

My dad was in N.Africa too, (Tunisia) Then Italy (Mount Casino) followed by Bulge and Ramagen.

One while driving home through the pine barrens (his window was open) he noticed a sickening sweet smell, and knew immediately what it was. He contacted the police and told them he did not know where it was but a decaying human body was somewhere in the area.

[mware]

I rarely go to see a movie more than once, but with Jaws I made the exception.

I went the second time to watch the audience. Damn did the popcorn fly.