Clayton Schulz, a baseball player for the University of North Florida was bitten by a shark while surfing near Jacksonville, Florida’s Seventh Street on Friday July 23. 2010, according to a story on New4jax.com.
“I was hopping back on my board and I felt something grab my foot. All I really feel is teeth,” Schulz said. “It took me a second to kind of process everything, and I yelled to the other guy out there — there was another guy who was out a little bit farther — and I yelled to him, ‘Hey, man, I just got bit.'” . . Schulz was taken to Baptist Beaches Medical Center then flown to Shands. He said doctors put more than 400 stitches in his left foot to repair the damage.
Biologists were quick to point out that the chances of dying from a shark attack are 1 in 3,748,067. But we always wonder what the chances of dying are after being bitten by a shark. That seems like a more relevant metric for surfers.
[Link: News4Jax.com]
