Shark attacks at Surfside: A shark attacks
at Surfside Beach, but the predator didn’t win, the shark was given a
fight by the young victim. A 15-year-old boy was swimming in waist deep
water when he felt something clamp down on his leg with force. It was a
shark and the teen immediately began punching the creature in the
snout, according to “Fox and Friends” live on Tuesday, June 18, 2013.
CNN reports today that the teen was at Surfside Beach along Texas’s Gulf coast with his church group when the attack happened. The other kids in the group came to this kid’s aid, which says a lot about the integrity of these young adults, most would run out of the water.
A Surfside police officer just happened to be at the scene when the teen was bitten and he bandaged the boy’s leg and hand until paramedics arrived. The teen was flown to a hospital after the attack.
He is in stable condition at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center with “non-life-threatening injuries, according to Surfside Assistant Police Chief Greg Bisso.
While it was a shark that attacked this teen, it is not immediately known what type of shark it was that bit the kid in waist-deep water. The Surfside Beach area has seen two other shark attacks in the past four years, it is located about 65 miles south of Houston.
CNN reports today that the teen was at Surfside Beach along Texas’s Gulf coast with his church group when the attack happened. The other kids in the group came to this kid’s aid, which says a lot about the integrity of these young adults, most would run out of the water.
A Surfside police officer just happened to be at the scene when the teen was bitten and he bandaged the boy’s leg and hand until paramedics arrived. The teen was flown to a hospital after the attack.
He is in stable condition at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center with “non-life-threatening injuries, according to Surfside Assistant Police Chief Greg Bisso.
While it was a shark that attacked this teen, it is not immediately known what type of shark it was that bit the kid in waist-deep water. The Surfside Beach area has seen two other shark attacks in the past four years, it is located about 65 miles south of Houston.