{"id":27524,"date":"2012-01-04T08:11:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T16:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27524"},"modified":"2012-01-04T09:43:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:43:32","slug":"new-south-wales-surfer-hit-by-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27524","title":{"rendered":"New South Wales Surfer Hit By Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nsw_shark.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nsw_shark.jpg','popup','width=418,height=236,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\/2012\/01\/nsw_shark-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Nsw Shark\" \/><\/a>A 28-year-old  Australian surfer was hit by a shark while surfing Tuesday evening (January 3, 2012) at  NSW&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avoca_Beach,_New_South_Wales\" target=\"_blank\">North Avoca Beach<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/animals\/more-sharks-spotted-at-beach-after-surfer-attacked-20120103-1pju8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Paramedics said the man felt his arm being pulled under his surfboard. . . The man was treated for puncture wounds to his forearm and wrist, and was taken to Gosford Hospital about 9pm yesterday. . . A hospital spokesman said the man was in a satisfactory condition, and doctors would assess his condition today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to witnesses, &#8220;The shark got on his board and just took a chunk out of his arm. I saw there was blood all over the man&#8217;s surfboard. We could see the bone and the arteries so it was really quite deep.&#8221; Authorities believe the shark may have been a bronze whaler. Other reports suggest <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/travel\/news\/surfer-attacked-by-shark-on-nsw-beach\/story-e6frfq80-1226236162577\" target=\"_blank\">great whites have been patrolling the area as well<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/animals\/more-sharks-spotted-at-beach-after-surfer-attacked-20120103-1pju8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/travel\/news\/surfer-attacked-by-shark-on-nsw-beach\/story-e6frfq80-1226236162577\" target=\"_blank\">News.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old Australian surfer was hit by a shark while surfing Tuesday evening (January 3, 2012) at NSW&#8217;s North Avoca Beach, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald. Paramedics said the man felt his arm being pulled under his surfboard. . . The man was treated for puncture wounds to his forearm 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\/27524"}],"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=27524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27552,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27524\/revisions\/27552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}