{"id":24049,"date":"2011-06-24T08:49:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24049"},"modified":"2011-06-24T08:49:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:49:46","slug":"shark-kills-surfer-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24049","title":{"rendered":"Shark Kills Surfer in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kevin Moraga<\/strong>, 15, was surfing with friends at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.govisitcostarica.com\/region\/city.asp?cID=23\" target=\"_blank\">Playa Grande<\/a><\/strong> in the North Pacific side of Costa Rica at a little after noon on Sunday, June 19, 2011 when he was hit by a shark in the left thigh. The bite resulted in massive blood loss, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticotimes.net\/Current-Edition\/News-Briefs\/Teenager-attacked-by-shark-in-Guanacaste-dies_Thursday-June-23-2011\" target=\"_blank\">Tico Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moraga was transferred on Wednesday in a coma to the Hospital Mexico in San Jos\u00e9, where doctors are better equipped to handle trauma patients. He died Thursday afternoon of a cerebral edema. An edema is caused by a large build-up of fluids in the brain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was reportedly the first shark attach at Playa Grande in recent memory. Our thoughts are with Moraga&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticotimes.net\/Current-Edition\/News-Briefs\/Teenager-attacked-by-shark-in-Guanacaste-dies_Thursday-June-23-2011\" target=\"_blank\">Tico Times<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/surfer-dies-from-shark-attack-in-costa-rica_56938\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfline<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Moraga, 15, was surfing with friends at Playa Grande in the North Pacific side of Costa Rica at a little after noon on Sunday, June 19, 2011 when he was hit by a shark in the left thigh. The bite resulted in massive blood loss, according to a story in the Tico Times. Moraga [&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\/24049"}],"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=24049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24050,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24049\/revisions\/24050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}