{"id":12641,"date":"2009-12-21T10:53:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T18:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12641"},"modified":"2009-12-21T10:54:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T18:54:32","slug":"shark-kills-lifeguard-on-south-africas-wild-coast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12641","title":{"rendered":"Shark Kills Lifeguard On South Africa&#8217;s Wild Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/00000283231.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/00000283231.jpg','popup','width=290,height=193,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/0000028323-tm1.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"0000028323\" \/><\/a>South African beach goers reportedly &#8220;watched in horror yesterday as a lifeguard at the Wild Coast was pulled off his paddling board by a shark and mauled to death&#8221; according to a story on <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.co.za\/article.aspx?id=367894\" target=\"_blank\">Dispatch Online<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the 22-year-old disappeared beneath the water of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portstjohns.org.za\/beaches.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Port St Johns\u2019 Second Beach<\/a><\/strong>, the ocean turned red. . . His remains have yet to be found. The victim\u2019s 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,\u201d said Costello.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.co.za\/article.aspx?id=367894\" target=\"_blank\">Dispatch Online<\/a><\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/outposts\/2009\/12\/lifeguard-killed-by-shark.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African beach goers reportedly &#8220;watched in horror yesterday as a lifeguard at the Wild Coast was pulled off his paddling board by a shark and mauled to death&#8221; according to a story on Dispatch Online. As the 22-year-old disappeared beneath the water of Port St Johns\u2019 Second Beach, the ocean turned red. . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12642,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions\/12642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}