{"id":6128,"date":"2009-08-31T10:02:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6128"},"modified":"2009-09-03T21:54:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T04:54:02","slug":"shark-hits-woman-repeatedly-at-tarramar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6128","title":{"rendered":"Shark Hits Woman Repeatedly At Terramar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Edmund_8-25-09_21.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Edmund_8-25-09_21.jpg','popup','width=325,height=211,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Edmund_8-25-09_2-tm1.jpg\" height=\"279\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Edmund 8-25-09 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharkresearchcommittee.com\/pacific_coast_shark_news.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Shark Research Committee<\/a><\/strong> is reporting that on August 25, 2009 while swimming in the surf lineup at Terramar <strong>Bethany Edmund<\/strong> was bitten on the foot and leg leaving a bite pattern that they say is representative of a juvenile White Shark 5-6 feet in length.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was swimming in the surf line-up trying to take pictures with a new INTOVA 6.0 mega pixel underwater camera I purchased earlier in the day. I noticed a large, approximately 14 inches in length, Sea Bass jump in front of me. I tried to snap a picture with my camera. Two other swimmers were next to me and saw the same fish jump. About a minute after the fish, I felt a sharp pain in my right foot. Thinking I might have kicked the reef, I shrugged it off and continued taking photographs. About 30 seconds later I felt the same sharp pain and, this time, I began to swim away from the area. I thought I was over a reef and was kicking a sharp portion of it. About a minute later while I was swimming from the area I was hit on the upper right thigh and propelled about 1 foot out of the water. This is when I realized what was happening and began to body surf toward shore. The first wave I caught I felt something in the area of my calf pulling me back and down under water. I thought it might be one of the two swimmers near me, however when I surfaced they were about 10 feet from my location. I ignored what had just occurred and caught another wave to the beach. This time I felt the same sharp pain in my left calf, but this time I was dragged under water and shaken for 4 \u2013 5 seconds. During this struggle I accidentally kicked the shark and it released me. The shark was about 6 feet in length with a dark blue\/black top and a white belly. I then proceeded to stand up and run out of the water. When I exited the water there was no obvious blood, just swollen areas where I had been hit. The next day I notified James Bilz, Supervisor II Lifeguard, Carlsbad and Encinitas lifeguards Captain Larry Giles and Paul Chapman Lieutenant at Moonlight Headquarters .\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sources with the Carlsbad lifeguards confirmed the bites. &#8220;Unless she stayed home and did a lot of work with an Exacto knife, then she was definitely hit by something,&#8221; our source said. &#8220;Exactly what that was, I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m not a biologist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Editors Note:<\/strong> Special thanks to <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> news tippers. We couldn&#8217;t do this without you.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharkresearchcommittee.com\/pacific_coast_shark_news.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Shark Research Committee<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/alert\/shark-attack-terramar-beach-carlsbad_30126\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfline.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shark Research Committee is reporting that on August 25, 2009 while swimming in the surf lineup at Terramar Bethany Edmund was bitten on the foot and leg leaving a bite pattern that they say is representative of a juvenile White Shark 5-6 feet in length. \u201cI was swimming in the surf line-up trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6128"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}