{"id":2688,"date":"2008-11-24T07:46:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T15:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2008-11-24T07:46:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T15:46:32","slug":"seal-attacks-namibian-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2688","title":{"rendered":"Seal Attacks Namibian Surfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surfers <strong>Chris Nel<\/strong> and <strong>Neels Engelbrecht<\/strong> thought they were going to get some good waves at Namibia&#8217;s Cape Cross, but ended up with more and 100 stitches after they were attacked in the lineup by a crazed seal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They were about 600 metres offshore when Nel heard Engelbrecht scream and saw that a seal had grabbed him by the head. . . . &#8220;I quickly swam towards him and saw the seal attacking him continuously, jabbing forward with its head, jaws snapping at his face and body. . . .I was just praying to God, begging Him to spare Neels&#8217;s life,&#8221; Nel told <strong><em>The Namibian<\/em><\/strong> from his hospital bed in Swakopmund.<br \/>\nAccording to Engelbrecht, he had hardly time to breathe: the seal just kept on attacking, ripping part of his ear off, biting him on the head, arms and legs. &#8220;I just shouted to Chris that I couldn&#8217;t go on. I was tired and in pain, and the seal would not stop. I thought this was the end of my life,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The seal then went on to attack Nels, too, as the men struggled back to the beach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/2008\/November\/national\/083ED2F015.html\" target=\"_blank\">Namibian.com.na<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfers Chris Nel and Neels Engelbrecht thought they were going to get some good waves at Namibia&#8217;s Cape Cross, but ended up with more and 100 stitches after they were attacked in the lineup by a crazed seal. They were about 600 metres offshore when Nel heard Engelbrecht scream and saw that a seal had [&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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688"}],"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=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}