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A WOMAN IN the US state of Florida was rushed to a hospital after being bitten by a shark – with the whole animal still clutching on to her right arm, local media reported.
The small nurse shark, which was about two feet long, was killed by a beachgoer soon after the attack, the Palm Beach Post reported.
The victim was an unidentified 23-year-old woman who was bitten while bathing at a beach in the coastal city of Boca Raton, city fire-rescue spokesman Bob Lemons told the newspaper.
Lemons said the woman was rushed to the city’s regional hospital with the shark still attached to her right forearm.
“I have never seen anything like it,” Ocean Rescue Captain Clint Tracy told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. “Never even heard of anything like this.”
Nurse sharks, which can grow to up to 10 feet (three meters) in length, are common along Florida’s Atlantic coastline, and are normally peaceful creatures.
But one witness told the Sun-Sentinel that before the attack he saw swimmers bothering the shark and holding it by the tail.
The victim was initially calm when she approached a lifeguard station at the Red Reef Park beach seeking help.
A male companion was holding the shark and there was little blood, Tracy said.
“It was barely breathing but it wasn’t letting go of her arm, like it was stuck to her or something,” witness Shlomo Jacob told the Sun-Sentinel.
As time went by and a crowd gathered, the woman became agitated and when paramedics arrived they gave her oxygen.
Then they used a board to support her arm and the shark, placed her on a stretcher and drove to the hospital, Tracy told the newspaper.
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Hi Martine,
Trust is something too many Irish people don’t have in out own government let alone the EU. Each week in Ireland there is a new political scandal and the majority of people have given up even looking at how out political system works.
The feeling here among too many is also a huge distrust to the EU. We have shouldered the most out of all European citizens for a private banking debt (check eurostadt figure please) and have been let to fend completely for ourselves with no ‘deal’ or ‘seismic shifts’ add that to the now weekly scandals from justice system, banking debt lies and the continuation of party cronyism by our very own prime minister. Trust? That’s a long way off yet I’m afraid.
We need a modern framework for all aspects of government!
I can’t believe the EU is serious about data protection until the Safe Harbour agreement is discontinued. With the Snowden revelations and the ongoing court case to seize data from Irish-based Microsoft servers we know we can never trust our data’s security outside our borders.
This will be very good for EU citizens. At present your rights with respect to data protection vary depending on where the data is held. It would be nice to standardise that a bit, even if it only applies to the EU.
People want their data secure…
People want to trust politicians…
Yeah we need a change…
” post to fb, backup to cloud, #mydeepestsecrets, remember password”
Lmfao
Back to the carrier pigeon.
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