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Volusia County: 22 Shark Attacks In ONE YEAR!

Monday, September 15, 2008 By 5 Comments

newsmyrnabeachdanger Volusia County: 22 Shark Attacks In ONE YEAR!Everyone is reporting the same AP-style blurb, so here goes:

ORMOND-BY-THE-SEA

In Volusia County, a tourist from Tennessee has become the 22nd shark bite victim of 2008 — tying the previous county record set in 2001.

The Volusia Beach patrol says it looked like a 2- or 3-foot juvenile shark bit the unidentified man, 32, Sunday just before noon.

The man was swimming in waist deep water off Ocean Shore Boulevard in Ormond-by-the-Sea. The bite just cut the skin.

The majority of the shark bites this year in Volusia County have happened south of the New Smyrna Beach jetty.

Volusia County Shark Attack #16 (2008) – Teenage Girl Mauled in Florida Shark Attack

Volusia County Shark Attack #17 (2008) – Surfer Recovering After Shark Attack

Volusia County Shark Attack #18 (2008) – Shark Attack Epidemic Continues In New Smyrna Beach

Volusia County Shark Attack #19 (2008) – Four Shark Attacks In Two Weeks

Volusia County Shark Attack #20 & #21 (2008) – Two Surfers Simultaneously Attacked By Sharks

Volusia County: 22 Shark Attacks In ONE YEAR!
Source: Central Florida News 13

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  • http://kemmcnair.com Kem McNair

    The inlet has only been surfed since june 1971 when they finally finished building the jetty. Before that it was a sloppy disorganized mess of a wave. I have been a local and surfing New Smyrna for 44 years. David(Bean)Coffee and Myself were the first guys to surf the inlet for a week the year I graduated(1971) Everyone kept asking us where we had been all week and we wouldn’t say! The word finally got out and the rest is history. We were owners of a local surf shop(MCC’s Sun & Surf) At the time. The shark bites are so common
    Most people don’t even go in when a bite occurs. It is strange behavior to watch from the water. Kem

  • http://kemmcnair.com/ Kem McNair

    The inlet has only been surfed since june 1971 when they finally finished building the jetty. Before that it was a sloppy disorganized mess of a wave. I have been a local and surfing New Smyrna for 44 years. David(Bean)Coffee and Myself were the first guys to surf the inlet for a week the year I graduated(1971) Everyone kept asking us where we had been all week and we wouldn’t say! The word finally got out and the rest is history. We were owners of a local surf shop(MCC’s Sun & Surf) At the time. The shark bites are so common
    Most people don’t even go in when a bite occurs. It is strange behavior to watch from the water. Kem

  • http://www.fearbeneath.com/blog Martin Brody

    Unreal. The carnage continues. Those sharks have voracious appetites. You can be sure that The Fear Beneath will be holding a press conference when they set the record for attacks in one year.

  • http://www.fearbeneath.com Martin Brody

    Unreal. The carnage continues. Those sharks have voracious appetites. You can be sure that The Fear Beneath will be holding a press conference when they set the record for attacks in one year.