South African beach goers reportedly “watched in horror yesterday as a lifeguard at the Wild Coast was pulled off his paddling board by a shark and mauled to death” according to a story on Dispatch Online.
As the 22-year-old disappeared beneath the water of Port St Johns’ Second Beach, the ocean turned red. . . His remains have yet to be found. The victim’s name has been withheld until officials inform his family. . . He becomes the fourth person to die from the jaws of a shark at the same beach in two years. . . Witnesses I spoke to said they saw his hands in the air for a short while before his whole body disappeared under the water and a red pool of blood was seen on the surface. Only his kneeboard washed ashore,” said Costello.
[Link: Dispatch Online via LA Times]
What a horrible event to witness. Even after watching the videos on Planet Earth, I can’t even begin to imagine what that must be like. Brings back the reason I didn’t swim in the ocean for years when I was a kid.
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