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Posted on 06/02/2016 11:59:02 AM PDT by Pelham
She had wounds in a half circle across her torso, teeth marks from her upper right shoulder in the back to her pelvis in front and to the other side of her buttocks in the back.
Several ribs were fractured. A lung was punctured. She lost no less than a liter of blood. Doctors looked for teeth that might’ve still been in her body.
Maria Korcsmaros, a 52-year-old triathlete and mother of three, survived a shark attack Sunday in Corona del Mar.
She lived only because of her own quick thinking, strong work from a pair of Newport Beach lifeguards who luckily were close at hand, and medical experts who responded well to a trauma none had seen first-hand.
“It was life before limb,” said Dr. Philip Rotter, director of orthopedic trauma and chairman of orthopedics at Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana.
Details of the attack emerged Tuesday as Rotter and other experts offered an inside look at what the swimmer endured Sunday and how she was treated.
They talked about how lifeguards pulled her from the water and treated her appropriately, and how emergency physicians and others later had to spring into action to treat a woman who had a tourniquet wrapped around her arm to slow the flow of blood spilling from her body.
Based on the description of the wound, local shark expert Chris Lowe, who runs The Shark Lab at Cal State Long Beach, thinks the shark was an adult, likely more than 10 feet long.
“I can tell you that’s probably not a pup.”
As medical experts discussed the events that saved Korcsmaros, Newport Beach lifeguards on Tuesday re-opened beaches between Balboa Pier and the Wedge, a stretch of water closed to swimmers since the
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" Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya, right into your eyes. Y’know, the thing about a shark, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’ until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white, and then – aww, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’, the ocean turns red, and in spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and rip ya to pieces…"
I have a deal with sharks. I don’t go in their water and they won’t come down my street.
Here, Batmander, I can outdo your latest animal post.
Well, I got to disect a dead shark in HS Biology, so I’m up one.
She obviously isn’t a lawyer. Sharks don’t bite lawyers. Professional Courtesy.
“Fellows, let’s be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half-assed autopsy on a fish... And I’m not going to stand here and see that thing cut open and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock.”
They need better barriers between beachgoers and the ocean!
Exactly one year ago the wild animal cult was celebrating the fact that Great White sharks have reestablished themselves in SoCal waters after decades of absence. They were juveniles last year. Now they are all grown up.
Can’t wait to see what a few more of these incidents do for SoCal beach tourism. This was right off shore of one of the most heavily used beaches in Orange County.
The woman is a triathlete who was doing some light training just offshore. Her very strong physical condition is one reason the bite didn’t kill her. She still has to worry about infection. She had an open chest wound, tooth gouges out of her bones. This is a serious injury.
“They need better barriers between beachgoers and the ocean!”
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Huh ?
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LOL, I saw some sharks on TV yesterday and was thinking the same thing. Get a Law Degree before venturing into the littoral zone.
#GorillaLivesMatter ought to be pissed. No one is shooting the shark.
And it’s a Great White shark. Figures. White privilege. Racism once again.
What Pelham said.
The surfers cross the PCH in the middle of the road and screw up traffic (like I won’t hit them and just turn on my windshield wipers), so I am rooting for the sharks.
Megyn Kelly or Katie Couric ?
“Love to prove that, wouldn’t ya? Get your name into the National Geographic.”
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LOL, I wuz thinkin’ some peeps may have thought I was watching a lieyour show, but no, some actual neandrathal pre-fish.
” Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we’ve received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again. “
Shark fishing tournaments followed by public fish fries. No brainer.
Drop the PETA protesters twelve miles out at sea ;)
You obviously have not had an encounter with Land Shark!
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