Sunday, May 27, 2007

INJURED – 26 May 2007 -- Garden City Beach, South Carolina, United States – wader attacked

A woman (name not released) was presumed bitten by a shark at Garden City Beach, South Carolina, United States around 5pm on Saturday 26 May 2007.

She was taken to Waccamaw Community Hospital for treatment of a leg injury, according to media reports.

Witnesses said they heard the woman scream. She was in thigh deep water. When she came out she had three gashes on the bottom half of her leg.

Captain Scott Gosnell of Garden City-Murrells Inlet Fire Department told media that as far as he knew “it was a shark bite to the leg”.

No other details were reported at the time of this blog.

Sources:
Island Packet
The Myrtle Beach Sun News