{"id":9030,"date":"2009-07-10T08:41:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T15:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2009-07-10T08:41:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T15:41:43","slug":"surfer-grabs-shark-by-the-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9030","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Grabs Shark By The Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/article-1198796-05aa7655000005dc-960-468x321.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/article-1198796-05aa7655000005dc-960-468x321.jpg','popup','width=468,height=321,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\/2009\/07\/article-1198796-05aa7655000005dc-960-468x321-tm.jpg\" height=\"137\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Article-1198796-05Aa7655000005Dc-960 468X321\" \/><\/a>South African surfer <strong>Paul Buckley<\/strong>, 37, was surfing near South Africa&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mossel_Bay\" target=\"_blank\">Mossel Bayon<\/a><\/strong>, when he got hit by a shark, according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1198796\/Surfer-survives-shark-attack-grabbing-tail-stop-biting-him.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;No doubt I was scared. I feared for my life so I just grabbed it. I thought if I held it by the tail, its mouth could not reach me again.&#8217; . . . Mr Buckley, 37, was released after a few seconds and then frantically swam the 100m back to shore near Stilbaai, which is near the tourist resort of MosselBayon which faces the Indian Ocean. . . Witnesses bundled him into a car and rushed him to a doctor so the bite &#8211; which was nearly 37cm wide and 3cm &#8211; could be closed. . . The businessman was then taken to hospital where he received 150 stitches. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>South Africa has an average of six shark attacks a year. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1198796\/Surfer-survives-shark-attack-grabbing-tail-stop-biting-him.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African surfer Paul Buckley, 37, was surfing near South Africa&#8217;s Mossel Bayon, when he got hit by a shark, according to the Daily Mail. &#8216;No doubt I was scared. I feared for my life so I just grabbed it. I thought if I held it by the tail, its mouth could not reach me [&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\/9030"}],"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=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9031,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions\/9031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}