{"id":43723,"date":"2013-10-09T12:49:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43723"},"modified":"2013-10-09T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T21:21:05","slug":"norcal-surfer-survives-great-white-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43723","title":{"rendered":"NorCal Surfer Survives Great White Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scrivner_shark.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scrivner_shark.jpg','popup','width=270,height=422,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\/10\/scrivner_shark-tm.jpg\" height=\"156\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Scrivner Shark\" \/><\/a>While surfers <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=shark+florida\" target=\"_blank\">may get nibbled every other day in Florida<\/a><\/strong>, Northern California surfers have a bit different beast to deal with in the form of massive Great White Sharks. Forty-five-year-old <strong>Jay Scrivner <\/strong>(great name for a College English teacher) found out in a serious way while surfing near Eureka, California on Sunday morning, October 6, 2013, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressdemocrat.com\/article\/20131007\/wire\/131009630\" target=\"_blank\">Press Democrat<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scrivner regularly surfs at the spot near Humboldt Bay known as the Samoa Peninsula. He was aware that another surfer, Scott Stephens, survived a shark attack in the same area last year. . . Scriver said that &#8220;out of nowhere&#8221; he saw the shark&#8217;s teeth and nose. After he was bitten, he took a swing at the great white and let out what a friend nearby described as a primordial yell. . . &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t believe it happened,&#8221; Scrivner said. &#8220;When I turned away from the shark, I said, &#8216;Did I really get bit?&#8217; Your mind doesn&#8217;t believe it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other than a big bite on his left thigh, Scrivner wasn&#8217;t missing any body parts so he paddled in. Once on shore friends reportedly applied pressure, and wrapped him in a T-shirt to slow the bleeding and Scrivner made it to St. Joseph&#8217;s Hospital in Eureka. Luckily, there was no artery or tendon damage and after getting 30 stitches Scrivner is expected to make a full recovery, according to the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update<\/strong>: Scrivner is already back to teaching his college classes at College of the Redwoods only 48 hours after getting hit, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times-standard.com\/breakingnews\/ci_24268333\/surfer-back-teaching-at-cr-2-days-after\" target=\"_blank\">a story in the Times-Standard<\/a><\/strong>. That is dedication.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressdemocrat.com\/article\/20131007\/wire\/131009630\" target=\"_blank\">Press Democrat<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While surfers may get nibbled every other day in Florida, Northern California surfers have a bit different beast to deal with in the form of massive Great White Sharks. Forty-five-year-old Jay Scrivner (great name for a College English teacher) found out in a serious way while surfing near Eureka, California on Sunday morning, October 6, [&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\/43723"}],"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=43723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43744,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43723\/revisions\/43744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}