Pismo Beach Shark Gets Surfer’s Foot

by The Editors on July 2, 2010

A 19-year-old surfer who out near Pismo Beach, California’s Silver Shoals was nipped on the foot by a shark, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says . . . he was out of the water with a cut on his left foot when fire personnel arrived. . . The surfer described the shark as approximately four feet long, brown in color with dark spots.

Officials kept the beach open, but posted some warnings to give other surfers something to worry about between sets.

[Link: San Jose Mercury News]

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