22 inch bite radius should equate to a shark at least 15 feet long. Great White.
Excerpt from FOX News:
The victim — one of a group of triathlete swimmers training in the ocean ....
The victim has been identified as Dave Martin, 66, a retired veterinarian....
“He had very severe injuries to both legs,” Abelman told FOX. He said the wound was a single bite across both legs.
A marine biologist told a beachside news conference Friday that the animal was “almost certainly a great white shark.”
“I was told that the victim was pushed up out of the water in a violent attack,” said Richard Rosenblatt of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “That’s typical great white behavior.”
Rosenblatt said the bite was likely “clean and massive” and believes the animal was a female.....
They estimated the shark to be a 16 footer.