[kristinn]

Prayers for the kids.

Local insight can be found in the comments at this article at WECT-TV.

[Veggie Todd]

We’re gonna need a bigger boat.

[left that other site]

Those poor kids! They are in my prayers.

[UCANSEE2]

isn’t Oak Island the site of the MONEY PIT ?

[RegulatorCountry]

Don’t swim close to a fishing pier, folks. Prayers for the two kids and their families. Oak Island is a small, old-fashioned family beach, mostly small beach cottages, very few hotels or condos. One of the few Atlantic coast beaches where you can see the sun set over the ocean. Good shelling.

[fso301]

Buuuum, Bump!

[Battle Axe]

And according to Animal Planet (Direct TV Ch 282) Shark Week doesn’t start until July 5.

[Mastador1]

A terrible situation for those kids, I wonder how long until the gaia worshippers blame global, er, climate change. Prayers for the teens.

[11th_VA]

From Miami Herald: “I saw someone carry this girl (out of the water) and people were swarming around and trying to help,” he said. “It was quite terrible.” There was a lot of blood he said and that people were trying to apply makeshift tourniquets to stop the bleeding. He added that people were asking her questions to try to keep her conscious. It was “quite nightmarish,” he said. “It was so much like a scene from Jaws,” his wife Brenda added

[Cowgirl of Justice]

I was there this entire weekend - stayed about a quarter of a mile west of there on the beach. The beach is eroded terribly and there is a severe drop off so, we stayed out of the water.

So sad. I hope those kids will be ok.

[Sicon]

How long before they blame this on global warming? I mean, come on, you KNOW they’re going to.

[familyop]

Before reading the rest of the article, my first question was about what attracted the attack. The answer is apparently in the article. Never get in the water soon after blood is in the water, and never swim near a pier in the ocean.

[Pelham]

I’ve been wondering if something like this will happen in Orange County, CA. About a dozen juvenile Great Whites have been feeding just offshore this year but without incident- so far.

[Katya]

Just returned from Holden Beach.. a stones throw from Oak island...
We have fished for sharks off the shore for years...
we don’t swim early in the morning or after about 3pm...
and never ever swim near a pier... the fisherman are literally baiting the water!!!

[Dagnabitt]

The Santa Monica Bay in So Cal is now teeming with Great White Sharks.

The Whites are said to be "juvenile" and here to eat fish and stingrays, not sea lions and people.

Nonetheless, surfers see the sharks daily, and one guy, a distance swimmer, has been bitten, though that had to do with the shark first getting hooked by a pier fisherman.

Naturally, the Gaia-worship drum-circle types think its just wonderful that there the white sharks are around, and that our waters are now shark-infested, because its means the bay is "healthy".