Shark attack kills South African surfer
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Pastor Dale Morgan
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Shark attack kills South African surfer
* From: AFP
* August 23, 2011 11:45PM
A SOUTH African surfer has died after a shark attacked him in Plettenberg Bay, off the country's southern coast.
The 49-year-old man was pulled from the water with multiple shark bites and rushed to the hospital, where doctors tried unsuccessfully to revive him, said National Sea Rescue Institute spokesman Craig Lambinon.
"He had bite marks to his leg, thigh and groin area," Lambinon told AFP.
"After all efforts to resuscitate him were exhausted, he was declared dead."
The incident comes on the heels of a number of headline-grabbing shark attacks.
The Seychelles last week closed down beaches after a shark savaged a British honeymooner as his horrified spouse looked on, the country's second fatal attack in 15 days.
On Russia's Pacific coast, a shark mauled a 16-year-old boy last Thursday, a day after a man lost his forearms defending his wife in a similar attack.
And in the Caribbean, a woman vacationing in Puerto Rico received a 30 cm-long shark bite last Wednesday.
Last year, 79 people worldwide were attacked by sharks, with six fatalities - the highest number of attacks in a decade and a 25-per cent increase from 2009, according to researchers at the University of Florida.
Shark attack kills South African surfer
* From: AFP
* August 23, 2011 11:45PM
A SOUTH African surfer has died after a shark attacked him in Plettenberg Bay, off the country's southern coast.
The 49-year-old man was pulled from the water with multiple shark bites and rushed to the hospital, where doctors tried unsuccessfully to revive him, said National Sea Rescue Institute spokesman Craig Lambinon.
"He had bite marks to his leg, thigh and groin area," Lambinon told AFP.
"After all efforts to resuscitate him were exhausted, he was declared dead."
The incident comes on the heels of a number of headline-grabbing shark attacks.
The Seychelles last week closed down beaches after a shark savaged a British honeymooner as his horrified spouse looked on, the country's second fatal attack in 15 days.
On Russia's Pacific coast, a shark mauled a 16-year-old boy last Thursday, a day after a man lost his forearms defending his wife in a similar attack.
And in the Caribbean, a woman vacationing in Puerto Rico received a 30 cm-long shark bite last Wednesday.
Last year, 79 people worldwide were attacked by sharks, with six fatalities - the highest number of attacks in a decade and a 25-per cent increase from 2009, according to researchers at the University of Florida.
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