{"id":29201,"date":"2012-03-20T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T16:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29201"},"modified":"2012-03-20T09:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T16:25:04","slug":"surfer-lands-floater-on-shark-gets-bitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29201","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Lands Floater On Shark, Gets Bitten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/566880-shark-attacks-surfer.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/566880-shark-attacks-surfer.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\/2012\/03\/566880-shark-attacks-surfer-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"566880-Shark-Attacks-Surfer\" \/><\/a><strong>Billy O&#8217;Leary<\/strong>, a 20-year-old surfer from Mermaid Beach, Australia was bitten by a shark today while surfing Nobbys Beach on the Gold Coast after landing a floater on to the bull shark&#8217;s back, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/queensland\/shark-attack-at-mermaid-beach\/story-e6freoof-1226305554183\" target=\"_blank\">Courier Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Kolkka said Billy had told him he was performing an aerial trick known as a &#8216;floater&#8217; when he landed on the shark. . . &#8220;It&#8217;s turned around and bitten him,&#8221; he said. . . &#8220;The shark probably wasn&#8217;t looking for him &#8211; it was just bad luck. . . &#8220;He made his way to shore but when he turned &#8217;round and saw the injuries, he was really scared. He yelled out to a few people to help but they were wearing iPods and couldn&#8217;t hear him and just kept walking.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>O&#8217;Leary was taken to a Gold Coast hospital where he was treated for &#8220;deep lacerations to his left calf, including one to his Achilles tendon&#8221; and is reportedly in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/queensland\/shark-attack-at-mermaid-beach\/story-e6freoof-1226305554183\" target=\"_blank\">Courier Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy O&#8217;Leary, a 20-year-old surfer from Mermaid Beach, Australia was bitten by a shark today while surfing Nobbys Beach on the Gold Coast after landing a floater on to the bull shark&#8217;s back, according to a story in the Courier Mail. Mr Kolkka said Billy had told him he was performing an aerial trick known [&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\/29201"}],"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=29201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29203,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29201\/revisions\/29203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}