{"id":10096,"date":"2009-08-30T10:33:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10096"},"modified":"2009-08-31T13:22:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T20:22:37","slug":"south-african-surfer-killed-by-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10096","title":{"rendered":"South African Surfer Killed By Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African surfer <strong>Gerhard van Zyl<\/strong>, 25, died on Saturday August 29, 2009, after having his leg &#8220;nearly bitten completely off by a shark&#8221; while surfing between South Africa&#8217;s Glentana and Outeniqua near Mossel Bay, according to a story IOL.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A friend pulled Gerhard out of the water after the attack and tied a tourniquet around his wounded leg, according to local media reports. . . &#8220;We found him on the beach and treated him for amputation to his right leg,&#8221; said <strong>Lambinon<\/strong>. &#8220;He was airlifted to a hospital in George and when he got there, was declared to be in a critical condition. He was later declared dead.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is reportedly the first shark attach at Glentana Bay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&#038;click_id=13&#038;art_id=vn20090830081347656C812274\" target=\"_blank\">IOL<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African surfer Gerhard van Zyl, 25, died on Saturday August 29, 2009, after having his leg &#8220;nearly bitten completely off by a shark&#8221; while surfing between South Africa&#8217;s Glentana and Outeniqua near Mossel Bay, according to a story IOL. A friend pulled Gerhard out of the water after the attack and tied a tourniquet [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10140,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions\/10140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}