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Michelle Harris/Towsurfer.comBobby Gumm of Newport was attacked by a 16- to 17-foot great white shark while surfing last week, losing a good-sized chomp from his board. NEWPORT -- On a deceptively calm morning last week, Bobby Gumm floated on his surfboard on the water off South Beach State Park. "I was enjoying that feeling of being a surfer out there by myself," said Gumm, a 41-year-old father of four. "It was peaceful. I was sitting there in heaven, pretty much." Within seconds, heaven turned to hell, as Gumm became the mistaken prey of the biggest living nightmare in the...

The 25-year-old was admitted in critical condition, unconscious. His arms were chewed off by his elbow," ... as were "other body parts," ... The shark struck about 50 metres off the coast. It was the first registered shark attack in the Primorye region located on the northwest coast of the Sea of Japan.

A British man has died in a shark attack while on honeymoon in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. ... A 36-year-old French tourist was killed by a shark off the same beach just over two weeks ago. The Seychelles Tourism Board's director Alain St Ange told the BBC the latest attack was caused by a "foreign shark" and

Six-year-old Lucy Mangum isn't taking personally a shark bite she suffered as she played in the water off Ocracoke Island last week. "Last night, we were chatting about it and she said, 'I don't care that the shark bit me, I forgive him,' " Lucy's mother, Jordan, told Ann Curry this morning during NBCs "Today" show. The girl's parents held a press conference and appeared with her on national TV this morning at PItt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville to talk about the ordeal. Lucy, who has undergone treatment for the wound, is expected to undergo physical therapy and make...

Colleagues of an abalone diver who was taken by two great white sharks off South Australia's Eyre Peninsula yesterday say they are shocked by the attack. Aircraft and boats with police and fisheries staff on board searched for the body of diver Peter Clarkson, who was stalked and attacked as he surfaced from a dive near Coffin Bay at the peninsula's southern tip. But wild weather forced them to call off the search. The skipper of the abalone boat witnessed the attack and police said he was still suffering from "significant shock". Mr Clarkson, 49, grew up in Adelaide and...

A GERMAN woman tourist has been killed in the third shark attack in a week at Egypt's popular Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Mohammed Salem, director of South Sinai Conservation, said the woman died after a shark attacked her while she was snorkelling in Naama Bay, only one day after Sharm el-Sheikh reopened its beaches following two other attacks in which Russians were mauled. Government conservation experts said on Friday they captured two sharks, an oceanic whitetip and a mako, which they believed had mauled two Russian women swimmers last Tuesday and Wednesday. The resort's mayor, Gamal al-Mahdi, said...

A bodyboarder killed by a shark at a Central California beach cried out to his friend for help as the shark flashed out of the water, bit into his leg and pulled him under in a tide of blood, the friend said Friday. Matthew Garcia was surfing 2 feet from his friend, 19-year-old Lucas Ransom, when the shark attacked, he said. The whole incident lasted seconds. "When the shark hit him, he just said, 'Help me, dude!' He knew what was going on," Garcia told The Associated Press. "It was really fast. You just saw a red wave and this...

A man was killed by sharks in a rare fatal attack this afternoon in the waters off Stuart, authorities said. The man, whose name wasn't made public, was kite surfing south of Stuart Beach about 4:15 p.m. when the sharks attacked him, said Bureau Chief Doug Killane of Martin County Fire-Rescue. A lifeguard spotted the man floating in an unguarded stretch of ocean, jumped on a rescue board and paddled out to him. He pulled the man away from the sharks and carried him back to shore.

WHITE pointers caused terror on opposite sides of Australia yesterday as a giant shark lunged at kayakers off Sydney and a Perth diver was taken feared dead. Brian Guest, 51, was diving for crabs with his son at their local beach near Rockingham, 30km south of Perth, when he disappeared about 7am. His son, Daniel, 24, swam ashore and raised the alarm. Witnesses saw fins and blood in the water. ''Something very traumatic and pretty violent has happened there and we are treating it as a probable shark attack ,'' acting police inspector Mark Valentine said. The three emergency service...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A surfer in New Smyrna Beach was caught on tape kicking and paddling frantically after spotting a shark closing in on him a day after a boy was bitten in the same area. A TV news helicopter spotted the surfer paddling in the water unaware that a shark was nearby. Video showed the surfer eventually noticing the shark and then fleeing. He is seen kicking when the shark is near his feet. Just hours before the encounter, a 15- year-old was hospitalized after jumping on a shark. "It appears that he actually just put his...

****UPDATE 4 From Swim at Your Own Risk**** Victim Pic in. Contrary to earlier reports he still appears to have legs but they don't look good.

A man was killed in a shark attack off the coast of San Diego Friday morning. According to reports surfers spotted the man swimming in the waters of Solana Beach in an area known as Fletcher’s Cove. They then noticed the man begin to struggle and after they reached to help him they saw that he had been attacked by a shark and had both his legs severed at the knee.

<p>A man bitten by a shark while diving over the weekend has died, the U.S. Coast Guard in Miami announced on Monday.</p> <p>The 50-year-old man "passed away from his injuries sustained by a shark bite," said Coast Guard spokeswoman Petty Officer Jennifer Johnson.</p>

AN abalone diver has survived a terrifying attack by a white pointer shark, which swallowed his head and shoulders before he fought free of the predator. Eric Nerhus, 41, was diving off the New South Wales south coast today when the 3m shark seized him head on, crunching on his head, shoulders and chest, he told friends later. Protected from the worst of the shark's bite by a lead-lined weight vest, the diver stabbed and clubbed at the creature's head and eyes with an abalone chisel until it spat him free. The shark's bite crushed Mr Nerhus's reinforced face mask,...

Surfer fights off shark attack near Florence jetty    VIDEO   FLORENCE, Ore. - A surfer says he will return to the ocean after he was attacked by a shark that bit his foot, requiring more than 30 stitches. Tom Larson was surfing Tuesday with a small group off the South Jetty when his buddy, Keenan Keeley, thought he saw a dorsal fin. "We were like, 'No, dude, that's a porpoise,"' the 23-year-old welder from Eugene said. "We'd seen some porpoises in the water earlier." Larson said conditions appeared safe - no wind, no ominous overcast skies, no sea...

In the wake of two especially brutal attacks in Australia, ocean-lovers can try a new invention to ward off the toothy terrors This year got off to a bad start in Australia, which had its first fatality in January when 21-year-old Sarah Whiley died from shock and blood loss after being savaged by up to three bull sharks while swimming off a Queensland beach. A short time after, Bernie Williams was mauled on the elbow by a Great White, diving not far from Perth. The animal then proceeded to stalk him while he hid in a crevice on the ocean...

A WOMAN desperately screamed for help as she was torn apart by a pack of sharks – but onlookers thought she was joking. Up to three sharks struck as Sarah Kate Whiley, 21, was swimming with friends at Amity Point, off Queensland's North Stradbroke Island, about 5.30pm on Saturday. Within seconds they had torn off her arms and mauled her torso and legs. Two fishermen were the first to react, dragging her out of the water on to the beach. Frantic bystanders scrambled for towels to stem the bleeding before a helicopter flew Ms Whiley to a Brisbane hospital, where...

BOCA GRANDE - A shark bit an Austrian tourist on the ankle Friday as the man stood in chest-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico, days after one tourist was killed and another was seriously injured by sharks elsewhere in the state, authorities said. Armin Projer, 19, was upright in the water when he was bitten, said Lee County sheriff's spokeswoman Ileana LiMarzi. He was airlifted by helicopter to Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, where he was in good condition, hospital spokeswoman Pat Dolce said. "It is a confirmed shark attack,'' LiMarzi said. "Someone else in the water saw...

A boy fishing in waist-deep water yesterday was bitten and critically injured in the second shark attack on a teenager along the Florida Panhandle in three days. Craig A. Hutto, 16, of Lebanon, Tenn., was taken to Bay Medical Center in Panama City, where his leg was amputated. He was listed in critical condition but was expected to recover, said hospital spokeswoman Christa Hild. The boy was attacked off Cape San Blas, a popular vacation destination about 80 miles southeast of the Destin area, where Jamie Marie Daigle, 14, of Gonzales, La., was killed by a shark Saturday. The boy...

A Florida surfer said he acted as ''bait'' to try to distract the shark while he wrestled the 14-year-old girl onto his surfboard: ''I've never been so scared in my life.'' The teen later died. Off Miramar Beach on the Gulf Coast of Florida's Panhandle, longtime surfer Tim Dicus has seen the dark, lithe shadows dart beneath the water -- the glistening gray fins split the waves. He was once even bumped by a shark, he said. But Saturday was different. Dicus tussled in the water with what experts say was most likely an 8-foot-long hungry bull shark hellbent on...