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16 year old boy attacked by a shark at OBX

ohhi

Posted 12:01 pm, 06/20/2020

hate this happened to this young man he will never forget it. i think its not a good time to go on trips anywhere this corona virus is out there everywhere and to me its foolish to even go to the beaches. i go usually several times each summer but wont be going this year i will miss it but id rather stay home and not get this deadly virus or bring it back to friends and family. just my thoughts my prayers are with the boy as he recovers.

sparkling water

Posted 11:42 am, 06/20/2020

People have been swimming in that same ocean for at least 400 years. Occasionally, a shark takes advantage. It's life.

aFicIoNadoS

Posted 11:35 am, 06/20/2020

Why shouldn't you go outside, in the heat and fresh air in summer time during a pandemic? A pandemic virus that doesn't like heat or humidity?

Bestill

Posted 9:19 am, 06/20/2020

Well, you can see them in clear water. I just have that primal fear of what you cannot see. In clear water, folks can see and know the sharks And do not have reason to panic if it is just a reef shark. Shoot! In the Atlantic North a person is lucky to see their own feet in water up to your knees. In clear water you have visibility.

1goddess

Posted 8:53 am, 06/20/2020

I don't see where anyone is trying to stop them, maybe they should make better choices.

ashehikingmom

Posted 8:50 am, 06/20/2020

Yeah because sharks don't attack where the water is clear. Just so you know it is the ocean that's where sharks have lived for I don't know since the beginning of sharks?! Yes it is pandemic, however these places have opened. You can't stop them from going.

Bestill

Posted 5:15 am, 06/20/2020

So grey! I remember one time we went to this beach in Charleston and some kid got bit and died from a shark just a few feet from shore. No one could see the shark. That ocean is too murky.

Bestill

Posted 5:13 am, 06/20/2020

That is the worst ocean on the planet. Better you can see through the water.

antithesis

Posted 3:06 am, 06/20/2020

You shouldn't go to the beach anyway, in the middle of a pandemic... but if you do, be wary of sharks!

A 16-year-old boy visiting North Carolina's Outer Banks with his family is recovering from injuries suffered when he was attacked by a shark on Thursday.

Nick Arthur was jumping over waves on a sandbar about 25 feet offshore when he started screaming, his father told CNN.
"At first I thought he was screaming out of joy, and then I looked at him and saw the shark," Tim Arthur said.
The shark had its teeth around Nick's thigh and was not letting go, Arthur said.
"He was screaming 'Get it off me. Let me go' and I jumped into action," Arthur said.

Arthur said his daughter swam to shore while he and his son fought the shark. Arthur said he kicked the shark near its nose while Nick was hitting him with his hand. The shark let go of Nick's thigh as it tried to nip at his hand, allowing Nick to swim free.
The attack occurred in the ocean near Vehicle Ramp 25, about 2½ miles south of the village of Salvo, according to the National Park Service.
The Arthur family were visiting Cape Hatteras National Seashore from their home in Oak Ridge, North Carolina, near Winston-Salem.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06...index.html

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