“The shark isn’t getting its tooth back I’m not getting my leg back.”įinally with the help of a local politician, the Department of Primary Industries and Regions granted Blowes the morbid memento, but it came at a huge cost, Blowes told ABC. “I would never kill a shark for its tooth but it took my leg I can’t see any reason why I can’t have that,” he said. Chris Blowes, 32, back to surfing after he lost his leg to a Great white in 2015. The 26-year-old man was surfing off Manresa State Beach on the northern. Under the Fisheries Management Act in South Australia, possession, sale and purchase of White Sharks can result in a $100,000 fine or two years imprisonment. A surfer was killed in a shark attack off a Northern California beach, state park officials said Saturday.
He asked state officials for the tooth several times to no avail. Sullivan, age 25, was attacked about 1 km off Davenport Landing, about 24 km north of Santa Cruz, California (37☀0.2’N: 122☁2.3’W). Police took his surfboard - and the tooth embedded in it. The first authenticated White Shark attack on a wind surfer off the Pacific Coast of North America occurred on Thursday, 28 September 1995.
He said that once healed, hell be back on the board. “My heart had completely stopped and they had to administer CPR until I showed any signs of life,” he says. Just another day riding the waves changed suddenly when an 18-year-old surfer was bitten by a shark. “It shook me about and played with me for a bit - and it ended up pulling my leg off,” he told the outlet.īlowes was pulled ashore by two friends and treated by paramedics, then hurried to hospital. MELBOURNE, Sept 5 (Reuters) - A surfer died on Sunday after being bitten by a shark off a surfing beach on Australias east coast, paramedics said. Article contentīlowes was out surfing when the great white came up behind him and attacked, BBC reported. An unsuspecting surfer nearly had a very close encounter with a great white shark off the coast of Australia. Shark attacks are extremely uncommon in California. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. A surfer attacked by a shark north of Bodega Bay was 'critically injured' and airlifted to the Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Sunday morning. Taranaki shark attack: Surfer survives close encounter after being bitten by shark.
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