Posted on 06/30/2021 1:20:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Emergency crews responded to a report of a shark bite in Emerald Bay around 7 a.m., according to Los Angeles County Fire Department Supervisor Melanie Flores.
The child’s condition was not immediately known.
Emerald Bay is located off the northern side of Catalina Island, just northwest of Two Harbors.
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Meanwhile we are killing hundreds of thousands of Sharks so the hucksters can make their Covid shark-oil.
Gonna be the best 4 th of July ever these beachs will be open
Total Speculation from Me:
The child, or the juvenile was bitten at 7am.
Just guessing, but that child was probably out on the water with a family member, getting ready for a day of fishing.
They may have been using a small boat, close to the water’s surface. Very scary. If a shark was able to inflict a damaging bite, that means the shark could have dragged the kid off that small boat and pulled him down into the water.
Somebody was not watching Junior, or had put him in a perilous situation.
or they caught a Shark and dragged it into the boat
That’s what I call “Asking for trouble”
Similar to the old saying of Catching a Tiger by the tail.
You’re going to have a Battle Royale.
A boy who was part of a Boy Scouts camp at Catalina Island was bitten on the hand by a shark while canoeing on Wednesday, officials said.
https://news.yahoo.com/kayaker-bitten-shark-catalina-island-200459510.html
Not good.
You nailed the time-of-day...
2021 at 1:33 p.m. | UPDATED: June 30, 2021 at 1:36 p.m.
A kayaker was airlifted to a hospital for surgery Wednesday, June 30, after being bitten on a hand by a shark near Parson’s Landing at Catalina Island, authorities said.
The encounter was reported at 7:15 a.m., according to lifeguards with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
“The patient and (the) father were kayaking near Parson’s Landing when their boat was bumped by what is believed to be a shark of unknown size and type,” lifeguards tweeted. “During the encounter, the patient reached their hand into the water and was bit by the animal.”
The victim, whose age and gender were not disclosed, was taken by helicopter to a hospital to undergo surgery.
Lifeguards cleared and closed the ocean one mile in each direction of the incident for at least 24 hours, per policy.
Lifeguards requested the assistance of a shark expert from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography to identify the size and type of the shark.
great white breeding season starts in May and tapers off after July when they migrate back south. They don’t mate until they’re in their 30s so schools of juveniles don’t have much to do but eat and look for trouble.
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