When he was paddling in after the attack he thought, “If I lose my leg I’m getting a prosthetic like Mike Coots so I can surf again.”
A wild old tale of survival in the news this morn after a fifty-year-old surfer survived a shark attack by giving the animal hell and jamming his fingers into its nostrils.
Kevin Kanehe was surfing at Hanalei Bay, yeah the same joint that Andy and Bruce owned in the early 2000’s, when the shark, a fifteen-foot tiger, hit him on the leg.
According to an account posted on his GoFundMe page, 31k of 75k raised ‘cause this is the US and ain’t no government gonna pull you outta your hole shark attack or not,
“He was paddling for a wave, sat up on his board to turn around and got hit hard from the left side. People that saw it have guessed 12-15 foot tiger shark.
“The jaws grabbed ahold of his left leg and Kevin used his hands to try to lift it off, one of his fingers went in its nostrils and then it let go. Later the doctor said if it had clamped down and completed the bite he would have lost his leg
“Kevin paddled in with the help of Jeff McBride.”
On the beach a gal had a tourniquet and bandages to staunch the flow of claret.
“The bite went to the bone above and below his knee, taking some chips off his femur, knee cap and tibia. He his knee was torn up pretty bad and into his joint too.There is still concern for infection.
“Dr. Ravinsky did a great job with the surgery to repair all he could with what was still there but Some muscle tissue was lost. His right hand ring and pinky fingers were sliced open and tendons cut. He will have surgery today to repair.
“He will remain in the hospital and the recovery will be tough, Doctor says maybe a year before full recovery.
“Everyone has said how calm Kevin was throughout it all. His state of mind is good and he remembers every detail and thought he had.
I can’t believe when he was paddling in moments after it happened his thought was, “If I lose my leg I’m going to get a prosthetic like Mike Coots so I can surf again.”
The Hanalei attack has echoes of the Great White hit on Toby Begg at Port Macquarie a couple of months back.
Begg was dragged so far underwater it went dark and he thought he was going to drown. He was only able to swim for the surface after his foot ripped off at the ankle.
Back on the surface, the White hit him again, Begg scrunching into a ball, which would save his life, but causing his leg to take most of the impact.
“Then he was on the surface punching it in the head for ages,” said our source in Port Mac. “Both his hands were balloons from hitting it. After 30 seconds it let go and he started paddling in. It’d severed the femoral artery in his leg and the only thing that saved him was there was a doctor and emergency room nurse walking on the beach (separately who didn’t know each other).”
Lesson? Hit the cunts and pray for a medico on the beach.
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Shorebreak concussions pale in comparision to a shark bite
Lets hope the shark snot comes off of his fingers. Just in case it doesn’t I made a donation to buy Kevin a few Kleenex! GET WELL BROTHA!
You are correct in realizing that anal AirB&B renters and metrosexual Vals from LA are a far worse threat to any community than a few extra sharks. Stand down from your honorable task until the day you feel the need to use this valuable knowledge I have passed on to you and our fellow Beach Grit community.
Roarin’ Riley
fresh thresher from morro bay for din din tonite. butter and garlic, then bake!
Bake? You baking then baking the thresher?
WWE. clean-up crew in the AM~
just got back from the beach…https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.ne…
Is that you in the yoyo smuggling verticle stripped suit?
learnin the fine art of people watchin…preferably w/o no one noticing me…takes a high mind to mingle in that crowded sea before retreating, into My Room to play…with myself !
Bethany Hamilton was bit at Makua Beach; also Kaua’i Hawaii. That’s a more correct surf-adjacent incident. Where the hell is Port Mac? Did you first mention her first and then get red-flagged by WSL?
DR: “Surely I’ll drop Beth’s name in exchange for ‘he done what?’ on ELO.”
I have taken to surfing with a dive knife strapped to my lower leg , if a shark has a go at me hopefully I’ll have enough shit together to try n stab the fucker , in the mean time it does a great job of keeping hipster mal riders out of my way , it freaks the fuck out of cunts.
HMMM, this is inspiring to strap a machete to my back…just for looks!
“Later the doctor said if it had clamped down and completed the bite he would have lost his leg”
No shit Sherlock.
Marching for Hamas one imagines.
A CGI movie shark. So not real!
“The Hanalei attack has echoes of the Great White hit on Toby Begg at Port Macquarie a couple of months back.”
The screams of a man in Port Mac were heard in Hawaii with some delay and corresponded in same manner.
A Bethany scream was also heard…she thanks the lord everyday. too bad the WSL has dissed her. REINSTATE!
“Hit the cunts and pray for a medico on the beach.’
This is pretty much what saved me. I gouged it’s eye and it released me and my buddy I was surfing with at the time was a medic during his army national service.
Also like you’ve said before Derek, have a tourniquet available and know how to use it.
Pray the medic has a spare mask
let me save DR the trouble https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Doesn’t have a fin?
The Chinese nabbed it for soup?
My home has suddenly turned into a sea lion colony for the California winter. They winter on the mainland then head out to the Channel Islands in the spring. I don’t know where they used to go for their winters, but last year maybe a hundred or so pulled up in the fall and stayed till spring. About mid-September, a few dozen showed up. Now there are a few hundred. They’ve completely taken over this little beach on the harbor side of the jetty. They spill out and up onto the sidewalk and the street to catch rays. There’s huge bull males, moms, pups, adolescents…everybody seems to be invited. And they just go to town hollering day-and-night, which I always cherish when thinking about how it drives the LA air bnb’ers nuts. They rent a place for a weekend and leave having not slept, and bitching about their smell. On that front, I stand with the sea lions. But from a food chain perspective, I can’t help to think that if they’re here in such abundance and have seemingly decided to make it their new winter home, it’s only a matter of time until their predators start showing up in numbers, too. Here’s a pic:
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That cute lil’ pup on the lower right looks prime for a good clubbing.
What a horrible thing to say, ya sick fuck get some help
bombs away!
HMMM, the great philospher Ian Hunter once said “you’re never alone with a schizophrenic”
sniffing out the white sea bass juvenile holding nets? waiting to follow the squid boats out for an easy meal? dying from domoic acid? raising the coliform levels at mother’s beach? ground zero for a habitat study center? residents up-in-arms with noise and smell complaints? seal tacos? more questions than answers…
Fun fact- just go there with a few friends and “innocently” play some whiffle ball nearby them. Due to past events, somehow they still have an instinctive fear of anything resembling a club and even a plastic whiffle ball bat will immediately instill a look of utter terror in their eyes and the entire colony will flee in mass as far away from you as possible. Multiple seals might even have heart attacks before they even reach the water due to this total fear of anything club shaped being swung around anywhere near them. You will never be held liable for disturbing the colony due to an innocent game of whiffleball on the beach. Problem solved. You can thank me later.
THIS! I’ve learned more on BG over the 2 yrs than I ever learned in 3 decades from WSJ or FT…
Note to self, don’t fist, just finger.