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Romento was attacked and killed while bodyboarding at 9:45 a.m. in shallow, clear water approximately 90 feet (27 m) from shore off Keʻeau Beach Park, Oahu, Hawaii. His right leg was severely bitten in three places by a 10–12-foot (3.0–3.7 m) tiger shark, and he died of blood loss a short time after swimming to shore.
The previous fatal attack was on Dec. 30, when a man lost his left leg while surfing about 150 yards from shore at Paia Bay, Maui. Surfer Mike Morita lived to tell of the 8-to 10-foot tiger shark ...
MARK THIESSEN. June 24, 2024 at 4:18 PM. A well-known Hawaii lifeguard who was killed in a shark attack while surfing off Oahu’s North Shore was a former professional surfer with acting credits ...
The University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File lists 120 shark bite incidents in 2023. Of the 36 shark bites that occurred in the US, eight were in Hawaii, one of which was fatal. ...
Bethany Meilani Hamilton (born February 8, 1990) is an American professional surfer and writer. In 2003, she survived a shark attack in which her left arm was bitten off; ultimately, she returned to professional surfing and wrote about her experiences in the 2004 autobiography, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board.
This is a list of fatal shark attacks in Australia. The Australian Shark-Incident Database has recorded that between 1791 and April 2018 there were 237 fatal shark attacks in Australia. [1] In the two years of 2020 and 2021 there were 11 fatal shark attacks in Australia. [2]
On 13 May 2023, Simon Baccanello was killed by a shark while surfing at Walker's Rocks, near Elliston, on the western coast of Eyre Peninsula. On 21 October 2023, Todd Gendle was killed by a Great white shark while swimming at a surf break at Granites Beach, near Streaky Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. The location is known to be a ...
Sravasti Dasgupta. April 10, 2023 at 7:59 AM. A surfer in Hawaii is in a serious condition after he was bitten by a shark in the leg on Sunday. According to the Honolulu Emergency Medical Services ...