{"id":22405,"date":"2011-03-23T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22405"},"modified":"2011-03-23T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T16:00:50","slug":"shark-chomps-nsw-surfers-forearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22405","title":{"rendered":"Shark Chomps NSW Surfer&#8217;s Forearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/024433-shark-attack-victim.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/024433-shark-attack-victim.jpg','popup','width=650,height=366,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\/03\/024433-shark-attack-victim-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"024433-Shark-Attack-Victim\" \/><\/a>Surfer <strong>Dave Pearson<\/strong>, 48, was surfing New South Wales&#8217; Austalia&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crowdy_Head\" target=\"_blank\">Crowdy Head<\/a><\/strong> at about 6:30 PM when he was hit by a three-meter shark, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/indepth\/shark-takes-part-of-surfers-forearm\/story-e6frewr9-1226027029698\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Coopernook local had been swimming in the rough surf for several hours before the beast attacked him &#8211; severing his arm and causing lacerations to his face. . . Crowdy Beach Surf Life Saving caretaker Adam Eady was one of the first on the scene to help Mr Pearson when his friends brought him to shore. . . &#8220;He was very lucky to come away from that without serious injuries. . . &#8220;The shark bit through his board &#8211; if it hadn&#8217;t of been there it would have ripped him in half.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Experts say the shark that hit Pearson was most likely a bull shark. It was the second attack in the area in a week, according to the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/indepth\/shark-takes-part-of-surfers-forearm\/story-e6frewr9-1226027029698\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfer Dave Pearson, 48, was surfing New South Wales&#8217; Austalia&#8217;s Crowdy Head at about 6:30 PM when he was hit by a three-meter shark, according to a story in the Daily Telegraph. The Coopernook local had been swimming in the rough surf for several hours before the beast attacked him &#8211; severing his arm and [&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\/22405"}],"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=22405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22406,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22405\/revisions\/22406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}