- A teenage girl was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries Thursday after she was attacked by a shark while scalloping with her family in Florida, authorities said. According to the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded Thursday afternoon to Keaton Beach in the Big Bend...
- A teenage girl was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries Thursday after she was attacked by a shark while scalloping with her family in Florida, authorities said. According to the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded Thursday afternoon to Keaton Beach in the Big Bend...
A shark attack off Florida's east coast left a man with a "severe bite to his right arm" on Friday, authorities said.The Nassau County Sheriff's Office Marine Unit was out patrolling when it received a distress call from a boat around 11:15 a.m. local time. When they arrived, they ...
Cole Taschmanvividly recalls the excruciating pain that followed a recent, near-fatalshark attackinFlorida. This wasn't his first encounter with a shark at this very spot. Twelve years ago, a smaller shark had inflicted a less severe bite. But this time, the attack was far more brutal. W...
Some biologists say the shark that killed a Florida kite-surfer on Thursday was probably a great white. But a leading shark expert says among the handful of sharks large enough to kill a man, the great white is the least likely culprit in the latest attack.Murphy, Dan...
A 14-year-old boy from Missouri was bitten by a shark while visiting a Florida beach, officials said. Wednesday’s incident marks the fourth shark attack in Volusia County in the span of a week. Shortly before noon, the teen was standing in knee-deep water in Daytona Beach Shores w...
The attack happened at Keaton Beach in northwestern Florida. The girl was scalloping in water approximately 5 feet deep near Grassy Island, just of Keaton Beach, when she was bitten by the shark, the Taylor County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. One of the girl's family members...
of them were deadly, reports the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File.There had been nine such deaths in 2021.The shark attack file reported a year ago that one reason for the drop in bites might be the decrease of shark populations around the world.It is too early in ...
Emergency workers carry an injured woman from the beach after she was bitten by a shark in Walton County, Florida, on June 7, 2024. (Walton County Sheriff's Office) The Second Attack About an hour and a half later, at 2:56 p.m., a second call came in, from the nearby Seagrov...
– Two doctors vacationing with their families at a Florida beach this past weekend rushed to help a teen shark attack victim and likely saved her life. Three people were attacked by sharks along the Florida Panhandle on Friday. Dr. Ryan Forbess, a family medicine practitioner who was ...