{"id":21167,"date":"2011-01-25T11:03:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T19:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21167"},"modified":"2011-01-25T11:04:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T19:04:52","slug":"south-african-surfer-dies-in-shark-attack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21167","title":{"rendered":"South African Surfer Dies in Shark Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/1744978528.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/1744978528.jpg','popup','width=300,height=225,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\/2011\/01\/1744978528-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"1744978528\" \/><\/a>A 16-year-old surfer, and former finalist in the South African Grommet Games in the U-16 Division <strong>Zama Ndamase<\/strong> (right) died after being hit by a Tiger Shark at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portstjohns.org.za\/beaches.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Port St. Johns, South Africa&#8217;s Second Beach<\/a><\/strong> on Saturday, January 15, 2011, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/western-cape\/young-surfer-dies-in-shark-attack-1.1012737\" target=\"_blank\">IOL.co.za<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe ran down there as soon as we saw it. After the shark had bit him he caught a wave and headed for shore, but he couldn\u2019t stand on one leg and the wave faded on him. . . \u201cHe lost consciousness and some of the other surfers tried to rescue him before the lifeguards came. He was in the water a good 10 minutes before we got to him. . . \u201cWe checked for a pulse and all the vital signs, but he was already gone. The shark had bitten a big chunk off his right leg.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=%22second+beach%22\" target=\"_blank\">third shark attack death<\/a><\/strong> at Second Beach since March 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/western-cape\/young-surfer-dies-in-shark-attack-1.1012737\" target=\"_blank\">iol.co.za<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old surfer, and former finalist in the South African Grommet Games in the U-16 Division Zama Ndamase (right) died after being hit by a Tiger Shark at Port St. Johns, South Africa&#8217;s Second Beach on Saturday, January 15, 2011, according to a story on IOL.co.za. \u201cWe ran down there as soon as we saw [&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\/21167"}],"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=21167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21169,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167\/revisions\/21169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}