{"id":25108,"date":"2011-09-04T09:43:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T16:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25108"},"modified":"2011-09-04T09:44:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T16:44:39","slug":"bodyboarder-killed-by-shark-in-west-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25108","title":{"rendered":"Bodyboarder Killed By Shark In West Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/white-pointer.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/white-pointer.jpg','popup','width=400,height=293,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\/09\/white-pointer-tm.jpg\" height=\"146\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"White Pointer\" \/><\/a>A 21-year-old bodyboarder was killed by what was believed to be a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/titanicebook.com\/white%20pointer.html\" target=\"_blank\">white pointer shark<\/a><\/strong> today (Sunday, September 4, 2011) while riding waves with a friend in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.au\/maps?q=4969+Bunker+Bay+Rd+Naturaliste+WA+Australia+6281&amp;z=16&amp;vpsrc=0\" target=\"_blank\">The Boneyards near Bunker Bay<\/a><\/strong> in Naturaliste, Western Australia, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watoday.com.au\/wa-news\/shark-attack-at-popular-southwest-beach-20110904-1js3y.html\" target=\"_blank\">WA Today<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sergeant Anderson described those who pulled the victim from the water as courageous. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to take your hat off to the young fellow who was surfing with him and his mate for bringing [the victim] ashore, the nature of his injuries was significant, it&#8217;s not something that even volunteer rescuers or emergency services like to see,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to witnesses quoted in the story the bodyboarder was bitten in half at the waist. &#8220;&#8221;They were saying they were just two metres away from him. &#8220;From the waist down, it was just all gone.&#8221; Our thoughts are with the man&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watoday.com.au\/wa-news\/shark-attack-at-popular-southwest-beach-20110904-1js3y.html\" target=\"_blank\">WA Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old bodyboarder was killed by what was believed to be a white pointer shark today (Sunday, September 4, 2011) while riding waves with a friend in The Boneyards near Bunker Bay in Naturaliste, Western Australia, according to a story in WA Today. Sergeant Anderson described those who pulled the victim from the water as [&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\/25108"}],"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=25108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25110,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25108\/revisions\/25110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}