"The shark made a decision it didn’t want to eat him and let him go."
Very tragic news out of Maui, this morning, as it has been revealed that the surfer who was hit in Honolua Bay has died from his injuries. Sharks are vicious creatures, not purposefully of course but naturally, and Tigers are some of the very worst.
Across the Pacific, in my home state of Oregon, a 20-year-old surfer named Cole Herrington was hit by a Great White the day before and it currently in the hospital recovering from a bite to the leg and described his attack to the local NBC News affiliate.
I was just sitting on my board and then the next thing I know I just got hit really hard. And I looked around for my board, and grabbed my board, and knew I got bit. I don’t really remember what happened. Some people said it came form behind me and that’s why I didn’t see it. It bit me and lifted me out of the water and dropped me back in. When it first happened, it was like “What’s going on? OK this is getting real.” Once you figure out that you’re getting attacked by a shark, you’re just calling out to God asking that it doesn’t come back to bite you again. You just want to get out on the rocks. Once you get on the rocks then it starts to hurt, you want to get this blood stopped.
Other surfers helped fashion a field tourniquet and the young electrician’s apprentice vows to surf another day. Extremely harrowing and, according to shark book author and retired University of California professor A. Peter Klimley, extremely fortunate.
That fella has a lot to be thankful for,” he told The Oregonian. “If a shark really wanted to consume him, it could have. If they don’t want to release something, they don’t have to. This surfer was small and helpless in the mouth of the shark. The shark made a decision it didn’t want to eat him and let him go.”
I’ve always held the assumption that Tigers go all in and Great Whites just take a taste but I don’t know if that is backed up by science.
In any case, sharks. What the hell.
It’s been a banner week for SharkGrit
GoFundMe link for the guy’s surgeries, if anyone wants to bank some karma: https://gf.me/u/zbuaz7
I like how you didn’t delineate which karma that is.
Send him a BG endorsed leash tourniquet out of Oregonian solidarity.
Big Wave surfers chase that adrenaline rush you can only get from being attacked by a big shark.
here’s a cute vid of an Oceanic White~Tip shark biting a woman in The Red Sea:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
link~ie to og story, dated Dec. 3rd, pic of her shoulder after stitched up:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk…
DO NOT surf, wade, swim, scuba dive, free~dive, spear fish, boggie~board, kayak,
esh, you too might get bitten…
Cool story…
hiya Wilbur!
here is another cool story, this from a gal name of Olga, have a read, ok?:
Floating on her back in the warm waters of the Red Sea, Olga Martsinko was enjoying her holiday. She looked up at the clear blue sky and idly kicked the flippers on her feet as she swam close to the sandy beach full of sunbathers.
The next moment, her nightmare began. Olga’s outstretched left hand touched something solid with a rough skin as it dived underneath her.
‘At first I thought it was a dolphin, but then I felt a sharp pain as it came up, sank its teeth into my arm and began to wag me around,’ she recounted yesterday from a hospital bed in Cairo.
‘It tried to pull me down with it into the sea, and I saw the huge jaws of a shark and a sharp fin beside me. The shark let me go for a second and I swam away. But it came back for more, biting me again and again from behind.
link~ie:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk…
a pic, below, of Olga, for ya, too,
them lil’ Oceanic White~Tips can be aggro + bite ya, gnarly!
now ah Wilbur, as i don’t want you too, to ever be ah, bitten,
PLEASE quit surfin’,’ ok, Mister Kook~ie~Meyer?!?
hahaha…
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…