Maui’s Kai Barger and Tanner Hendrickson towed a 15-year-old shark bite victim to shore at Ledges last week, according to a story in the Star Advertiser.
Barger said he heard one of the bodyboarders scream but couldn’t believe that there was a shark nearby. He watched as the two bodyboarders paddled slowly back toward him and his friends. . . “I asked them if they had seen a shark and he said that he had been bitten by one,” Barger said. “He lifted his leg and his fin was gone and all of the skin on his shin was off. It was really gnarly.” . . “We just told him that he was O.K., that he still had a foot, and that he was going to survive this,” Barger said. “We just did whatever we could to keep him calm.”
Barger and Hendrickson towed the boy to shore and then reportedly used their leashes as tourniquets on the boy’s leg until EMS arrived. Nice work.
[Link: Star Advertiser]
That’s very poor writing … was the shark bite 15 years old or the victim? Male or female?
Perhaps a better version would be:
“Maui’s Kai Barger and Tanner Hendrickson towed to shore a 15-year-old male bodyboarder who suffered a shark bite at Ledges last week”
Actually, the writing is fine. Leave the writing to the writers, not the grammar nazis, please…
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