{"id":27805,"date":"2012-01-16T08:08:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T16:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27805"},"modified":"2012-01-16T08:14:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T16:14:24","slug":"port-st-john-surfer-killed-by-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27805","title":{"rendered":"Port St. John Surfer Killed By Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/article-2087267-0F7B41FE00000578-695_634x421.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/article-2087267-0F7B41FE00000578-695_634x421.jpg','popup','width=634,height=421,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\/article-2087267-0F7B41FE00000578-695_634x421-tm.jpg\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Article-2087267-0F7B41Fe00000578-695 634X421\" \/><\/a><strong>Ngidi Msungubana<\/strong>, a 25-year-old surfer from Port St. Johns, South Africa died yesterday (January 15, 2012) after being hit repeatedly by a shark that he battled with for nearly five minutes at Second Beach, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2087267\/Surfer-savaged-death-shark-South-African-beach-dubbed-worlds-deadliest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Provincial health spokesman <strong>Sizwe Kupelo<\/strong> said: &#8216;The man was surfing and was in water which was only around a metro and a half deep when the shark struck. . . &#8216;Witnesses who were near him at the time said he wrestled with the shark for around five minutes as the water turned red. . . &#8216;A fellow surfer then helped a lifeguard to get the man out of the sea and onto the beach. . . &#8220;There happened to be a doctor on the beach who helped to treat the man at the scene, and an ambulance then arrived to take him to hospital. . . &#8216;However the surfer had been bitten on both of his arms and his stomach and he sadly died on the way to the medical facility.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the same beach where a 16-year-old surfer was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21167\" target=\"_blank\">killed by a shark on the same day in January last year<\/a><\/strong> and is the &#8220;sixth <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=%22second+beach%22\" target=\"_blank\">fatal shark attack at Second Beach<\/a><\/strong> since 2007.&#8221; Our thoughts are with Msungubana&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2087267\/Surfer-savaged-death-shark-South-African-beach-dubbed-worlds-deadliest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ngidi Msungubana, a 25-year-old surfer from Port St. Johns, South Africa died yesterday (January 15, 2012) after being hit repeatedly by a shark that he battled with for nearly five minutes at Second Beach, according to a story in the Daily Mail. Provincial health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said: &#8216;The man was surfing and was in [&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\/27805"}],"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=27805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27811,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27805\/revisions\/27811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}