Volusia County: 22 Shark Attacks In ONE YEAR!

September 15, 2008 by Martin Brody · Comments

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.

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

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.

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