{"id":19045,"date":"2010-10-26T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19045"},"modified":"2010-10-26T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T14:50:17","slug":"a-new-smyrna-shark-bite-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19045","title":{"rendered":"A New Smyrna Shark Bite Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/shark2026-thumb-180xauto-10695.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/shark2026-thumb-180xauto-10695.jpg','popup','width=180,height=240,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\/2010\/10\/shark2026-thumb-180xauto-10695-tm.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Shark2026-Thumb-180Xauto-10695\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=new+smyrna+shark\" target=\"_blank\">New Smyrna Beach, Florida<\/a><\/strong> shark bite victim <strong>Andrew Heald<\/strong> discusses his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17639\" target=\"_blank\">September 2, 2010 attack<\/a><\/strong> with the the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/news\/local\/southeast-volusia\/2010\/10\/26\/surfer-tells-tale-of-shark-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daytona Beach News-Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and mentions being surrounded by mullet in mirky water and then he saw a fin poke out of the water.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have to get out of here,&#8221; Heald said he immediately thought. . . Heald guessed the fin was from a 5- to 6-foot blacktip shark. The blacktip is probably to blame for most reported human attacks in Florida, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, but never a fatality. . . The fin disappeared below the surface, and Heald figured it was his chance to try to catch a wave in. Then it hit him, hard. . . &#8220;I heard a big splash, and it felt like I was being tackled,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heald, unlike <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18951\" target=\"_blank\">California&#8217;s Lucas Ransom<\/a><\/strong>, survived with a few stitches and is already back in the water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/news\/local\/southeast-volusia\/2010\/10\/26\/surfer-tells-tale-of-shark-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daytona Beach News-Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Smyrna Beach, Florida shark bite victim Andrew Heald discusses his September 2, 2010 attack with the the Daytona Beach News-Journal and mentions being surrounded by mullet in mirky water and then he saw a fin poke out of the water. &#8220;I have to get out of here,&#8221; Heald said he immediately thought. . . [&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\/19045"}],"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=19045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19046,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045\/revisions\/19046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}