{"id":39495,"date":"2013-01-17T13:13:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T21:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39495"},"modified":"2013-01-18T14:20:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T22:20:48","slug":"shark-hits-big-island-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39495","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Shark Hits Big Island Surfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130118_shark_sign_13401.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130118_shark_sign_13401.jpg','popup','width=312,height=239,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\/2013\/01\/20130118_shark_sign_13401-tm.jpg\" height=\"153\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20130118 Shark Sign 13401\" \/><\/a><strong>Paul Santos<\/strong> was surfing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Kiholo+Bay,+hawaii&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;channel=fflb&amp;hnear=K%C4%ABholo+Bay&amp;gl=us&amp;t=h&amp;z=15\" target=\"_blank\">Kiholo Bay<\/a><\/strong> Wednesday, January 16, 2013 on the Big Island of Hawaii when a 15-18 foot tiger shark bit down on his right arm and leg. His surfing buddy Steve Macres saw the entire thing, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/breaking\/20130118_Big_Island_surfer_recovering_from_shark_attack.html\" target=\"_blank\">Star Advertiser<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI turned around to go on a wave and heard him. I heard that blood-curdling scream. It was just so primordial. It was unbelievable and it went into an echo so I could tell while he was screaming, he went underwater,\u201d Macres told <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/FuAJnB\" target=\"_blank\">KITV-TV<\/a><\/strong>. Macres said he saw the shark come out of the water, followed by a splash and then nothing. He said he thought his friend was dead and made a quick decision to paddle to shore. About 20 feet later, he decided to turn around to get another look. . . \u201cI just see him paddling for me. It was just incredible. It was like he was just born again, I just went, \u2018Oh God. Thank God.\u2019 You know?\u201d said Marcres. \u201cAnd then he lifted his right arm and his hand was flopping and it was, the bone was connected and it didn\u2019t break, but everything else was gone. I go, \u2018Paddle Paul, paddle!\u201d\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Thursday Santos was at Kaiser Permanente&#8217;s Moanalua Medical Cetner in Honolulu, according to the story, where he was &#8220;in stable condition with bites to his right arm and leg.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/breaking\/20130118_Big_Island_surfer_recovering_from_shark_attack.html\" target=\"_blank\">Star Advertiser<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Santos was surfing Kiholo Bay Wednesday, January 16, 2013 on the Big Island of Hawaii when a 15-18 foot tiger shark bit down on his right arm and leg. His surfing buddy Steve Macres saw the entire thing, according to a story in the Star Advertiser. \u201cI turned around to go on a wave [&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\/39495"}],"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=39495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39517,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39495\/revisions\/39517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}