{"id":43074,"date":"2013-08-16T10:47:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43074"},"modified":"2013-08-16T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T17:47:23","slug":"maui-shark-takes-tourists-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43074","title":{"rendered":"Maui Shark Takes Tourist&#8217;s Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old German german tourist had her arm bitten off &#8220;below the shoulder&#8221; by a shark on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 while snorkeling about 50 yards offshore at Palauea Beach on the Hawaiian island of Maui, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thegardenisland.com\/weather\/surf\/woman-loses-arm-in-shark-attack-off-maui\/article_981f7dc2-bfc3-5ba1-8600-f9cdf8da1d3d.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Garden Isle<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bystanders on shore heard the woman scream, put her on a kayak and brought her to land, said Lee Mainaga, fire services chief at the Maui Fire Department. Her right arm was severed below the shoulder, he said. The limb wasn&#8217;t recovered. . . The woman was taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center in critical condition. A spokeswoman there said Thursday that the hospital had no further information to release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Thursday the beach was reopened after officials saw &#8220;no sign of sharks in the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thegardenisland.com\/weather\/surf\/woman-loses-arm-in-shark-attack-off-maui\/article_981f7dc2-bfc3-5ba1-8600-f9cdf8da1d3d.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Garden Isle<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old German german tourist had her arm bitten off &#8220;below the shoulder&#8221; by a shark on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 while snorkeling about 50 yards offshore at Palauea Beach on the Hawaiian island of Maui, according to a story in The Garden Isle. Bystanders on shore heard the woman scream, put her on a [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43074"}],"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=43074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43075,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43074\/revisions\/43075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}