A visitor from Oregon was bitten on her foot by a shark in Daytona Beach, while in Hawaii, a teen anticipates the scar from his shark bite.
An unidentified 21-year old woman from Oregon was bitten by a shark May 6 while she was wading in shallow water off the 2000 block of Atlantic Avenue at Daytona Beach Shores.
The incident occurred in water about 4 feet deep around 11:30 a.m., and the shark was not seen. She reported the injury to lifeguards and was treated on the scene before leaving the area in a private vehicle. It is not known if she went to the hospital for the non-life-threatening injury.
This is the second shark bite on the coast this year. On April 30, Adrienne Wisko, 64, was surfing off New Smyrna Beach, when she sat on her board in 8 to 10 feet of water just after 9 a.m. As she was enjoying the day, an estimated 4-foot bull shark grabbed her foot and tried to drag her into the water.
She was able to kick the shark away and return to shore. Her right foot was “shredded,” and she was taken to a local facility for treatment but plans on surfing again.
Shark bite in North Beach, Oahu, Hawaii.
Parker Blanchette, 14, was surfing one of his regular breaks at North Beach May 3 when a shark showed up.
The eighth grader was paddling about 30 yards offshore just before 4 p.m. when he hopped off his board and the shark grabbed his left leg. “It was so fast. I didn’t even get a good grip, but I kinda pushed it off from the lower jaw,” he told Hawaii News Now.
He said the bite from the estimated 5 1/2-foot long shark lasted less than a second. “It was super quick, but it immediately just felt like a normal leg just with a little blood on it, but I thought it was pretty darn cool once I got bit.”
He was able to hop back on his board and paddle back to shore where he and a friend examined the wound.
“It just looked like I hit some reef or something because I wasn’t making a big deal out of it, but whenever I got in, my friend kinda helped me walk to the lifeguard tower and they got the ATV and helped me up the hill.”
Blanchette spent a few days in the hospital and his injury required over 100 stitches. With the exception of deep cuts, no arteries were damaged in his left shin.
The event hasn’t turned him off sharks. “I think even though there’s a lot of sharks, don’t be scared of the water,” he said. “It’s just we’re kind of in their area.”
He’s taken the event in stride. “I’m gonna have a sick scar soon. It’s gonna look epic.”
All locations have been marked on the 2021 Shark Attack Map.
