Tuesday, June 21, 2005

INJURED - 5 June 2005, Surf City, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, USA - surfer attacked

In the first attack in 30 years in New Jersey, United States, a 17-year-old surfer, Ryan Horton was bitten on his ankle by what experts believe to have been a small Great White shark.

Horton received 50 stitches to close the wound.

Horton said he never saw the shark and just felt a stabbing pain in his ankle while swimming back to his board after falling off. He managed to paddle to shore where his brother helped him to hospital. He told the press he did not know what had had happened to him until his doctor suggested he had been bitten by a shark.

New York Daily News report:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/317297p-271377c.html

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