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Must have pissed off one of them. I was surfing nearby at the time.
Marina is about 4 miles due north of the aquarium.
About 11 a.m., Todd Endris, 24, of Marina, and a half-dozen others were surfing about 75 yards off the Marina beach when the shark attacked. The predator struck him from behind, biting his torso and a thigh, said Loren M. Rex, a public safety superintendent with the Monterey District Office of California State Parks.Despite deep wounds, Endris was conscious and breathing when taken away by ambulance. He was flown to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, where he was stable and conscious Tuesday night following surgery and expected to survive, hospital spokeswoman Joy Alexiou said.
Salinascalifornian.com
For the third time since 2004, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has placed a young white shark on public exhibit, bringing him to Monterey on Tuesday evening (August 28) - 24 days after the shark was caught accidentally in commercial fishing gear off Southern California. As with the two prior animals - white sharks that were kept at the aquarium for 198 days (in 2004-05) and for 137 days (in 2006-07) before they were returned to the wild - the aquarium hopes to keep him on exhibit for several months as a way to change public attitudes and promote greater protection for these magnificent and much-maligned ocean predators.
Marina is about 4 miles due north of the aquarium.
About 11 a.m., Todd Endris, 24, of Marina, and a half-dozen others were surfing about 75 yards off the Marina beach when the shark attacked. The predator struck him from behind, biting his torso and a thigh, said Loren M. Rex, a public safety superintendent with the Monterey District Office of California State Parks.Despite deep wounds, Endris was conscious and breathing when taken away by ambulance. He was flown to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, where he was stable and conscious Tuesday night following surgery and expected to survive, hospital spokeswoman Joy Alexiou said.
Salinascalifornian.com
For the third time since 2004, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has placed a young white shark on public exhibit, bringing him to Monterey on Tuesday evening (August 28) - 24 days after the shark was caught accidentally in commercial fishing gear off Southern California. As with the two prior animals - white sharks that were kept at the aquarium for 198 days (in 2004-05) and for 137 days (in 2006-07) before they were returned to the wild - the aquarium hopes to keep him on exhibit for several months as a way to change public attitudes and promote greater protection for these magnificent and much-maligned ocean predators.