Gov. Pat McCrory said Thursday he is more anxious about safety than tourism this holiday weekend following seven shark attacks along the North Carolina coast.
“We are optimistic that he will make a full recovery”, Toschlog said. “The other side of the coin, people want us to go out and kill all the sharks – like they did in “Jaws” – and let people hang them up and let tourists come and take pictures with them”. As the man attempted to fight the shark off, he suffered bites to his rib cage, both hands, lower leg and hip. “I love the water, so I won’t let the fear of a shark attack hold me back”.
He said, “I could see the fin slowly coming by me, a shark is upon me, it’s attacking me”.
The Boston Herald’s ex- editor in chief, Andrew Costello was severely injured after he tried to fend off a seven foot shark with an appetite for severe destruction along the Atlantic coast.
The victim was swimming in waist-deep water with his adult son about 30 feet (9 meters) offshore, the National Park Service said in a news release.
It’s the seventh shark attack in the state’s coastal waters in less than a month.
Fourth of July weekend is a popular time to hit the beach, but this year, vacationers may not be the only ones swarming the waters off North Carolina.
“You never know what could have happened, he could have gotten dragged out to sea, he could have gotten his whole leg pulled off”, said Lynzie Weakley, the boy’s sister. Salinity is the salt content in the ocean, and sharks tend to like water with a high salt content. This means more sharks close to shore where swimmers usually hang around. There have also been reports of larger numbers of sea turtles along the coast, which sharks also like to eat. Then swims for his life scrambling to get away to the main fishing boat. “It was an open-wound gash”, said Lynette Holman, a journalism professor at Appalachian State University.
Lynette Holman from Boone, N.C. says she and her husband saw the victim right after the attack. “He was transferred to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, NC via air ambulance, where a team of emergency physicians and trauma surgeons was standing by to provide the proper treatment associated with these types of injuries”, he says.
Just a couple hours later, swimmers had returned to the water and one holidaymaker reported that “nobody seemed to be that scared”. He was conscious while waiting for medical care, she said.
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