{"id":702,"date":"2008-04-08T15:17:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T23:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2008-04-08T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T23:17:11","slug":"shark-kills-bodyboarder-at-ballina-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Shark Kills Bodyboarder at Ballina NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/dailytelegraph\/story\/0,22049,23504818-5001021,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A BODYBOARDER could get a bravery award after desperately trying to save his mate&#8217;s life when a boy was mauled to death by a shark on the NSW North Coast today.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-olds were surfing at Lighthouse Beach, near the mouth of the Richmond River, at Ballina, when the victim Peter Edmonds was grabbed by the left leg.<br \/>\nThe boy&#8217;s friend Brock Curtis-Mathew told paramedics he heard his mate Edmonds cry for help and immediately paddled over to help.<\/p>\n<p>With no sign of the shark and blood pooling around them, the young bodyboarder then bravely paddled his Edmonds 75m to shore.<\/p>\n<p>During the ordeal Edmonds passed out, forcing Curtis-Mathew to take his weight and drag him through the shallows on to the shore.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster then used Edmond&#8217;s mobile phone to call for help.<\/p>\n<p>However, by the time paramedics and a lifesaver arrived the boy had bled to death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/dailytelegraph\/story\/0,22049,23504818-5001021,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Daily Telegraph: A BODYBOARDER could get a bravery award after desperately trying to save his mate&#8217;s life when a boy was mauled to death by a shark on the NSW North Coast today. The 16-year-olds were surfing at Lighthouse Beach, near the mouth of the Richmond River, at Ballina, when the victim Peter [&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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}