Posted on 06/15/2015 8:35:00 AM PDT by Enlightened1
OAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) -- Two young people vacationing in the beach town of Oak Island were swimming in waist-deep water when they lost limbs in separate life-threatening shark attacks, town officials said Monday.
A 12-year-old girl from Asheboro lost part of her arm and suffered a leg injury, and a 16-year-old boy from Winston-Salem lost his left arm less than 90 minutes later and about 2 miles away late Sunday afternoon, officials said. The victims were each about 20 yards offshore.
The emergency call about the girl came in about 4:40 p.m., and the one about the boy at 5:51 p.m., local officials said.
Investigators said they didn't know whether the same shark attacked both victims, nor the size of the shark in either attack. Deputies using boats and helicopters to monitor the water after the attacks saw a 7-foot shark between where the incidents happened, sheriff John Ingram said.
Oak Island is working with local law enforcement and the Shark Research Institute to locate the shark but wouldn't say what would happen if they find it, town manager Tim Holloman said.
"We're just monitoring right now," he said.
Witnesses described a frightening and chaotic scene on the normally placid beach.
"I saw someone carry this girl (out of the water), and people were swarming around and trying to help," Steve Bouser, who was just beginning his weeklong vacation, told The Associated Press. "It was quite terrible."
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I tell you what scares me more than a shark - its those Manta Death Rays flapping around in Florida. But sharks are pretty dern scary. So are killer whales. Seeing any dorsal fin will tighten up the old scrote.
No, most shark attacks happen in shallow water because that’s where sharks and most other predator fish feed.
A friend of mine is closing on his new house in NSB right this minute! I wonder if he knows that fact?!
I’m not gonna tell him...
You failed to mention the deadly types of jelly fish. Man-O-Wars, etc..
It would be hilarious for someone to contact one of the local stations in Wilmington, claim to be from some oceanographic institution, and tell the reporter it was a Megalodon. In this day of Twitter news and unsourced reporting, one of the locals would probably run with it, and never bother to learn that the species went extinct millions of years ago.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
If the shark felt like a Megalodon, then its genetics do not matter. Sharks are allowed to be trans-species too.
LOL!! You ought to submit that to The Onion.
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