NEWS JUN 15 2015, 7:35 AM ET

Two Teens Lose Arms in Separate North Carolina Shark Attacks
by KATHRYN ROBINSON and M. ALEX JOHNSON

 2 teens lose limbs in North Carolina shark attacks 1:24
A 16-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl lost their left arms and suffered other serious injuries in separate shark attacks in Oak Island, North Carolina, authorities said Sunday night.
The teens, who weren't identified, were upgraded from critical to fair condition after surgery and were stable at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, said Martha Harlan, a spokeswoman for the hospital. The girl's left arm was amputated below the elbow, and she suffered lower leg tissue damage, Harlan said, while the boy's left arm was amputated below the shoulder.
The girl was bitten by a shark while visiting family at a Brunswick County island about 4:40 p.m. ET, Oak Island Fire Chief Chris Anselmo said.
Emergency responders assist a teenage girl Sunday after a shark attack at Oak Island, North Carolina.  Steve Bouser / AP

The second incident was reported at 5:51 p.m. only about 2 miles away, Anselmo said.
Oak Island Town Manager Tim Holloman said that visitors were encouraged to stay out of the water but that the beaches would be open Monday. The Brunswick County Sheriff's Department will have patrol the coastline by helicopter to watch for any dangerous activity, he said.
"Oak Island is still a safe place," Holloman said. "This is highly unusual."
Anselmo agreed.
"I've been here 16 years," he said. "This is the first time something this major has happened."

KATHRYN ROBINSON
M. ALEX JOHNSON
TOPICS U.S. NEWS
FIRST PUBLISHED JUN 14 2015, 6:32 PM ET


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Shark Watch - site from 2014
* Information on the shark species found in these waters*

http://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/coastwatch/previous-issues/2014-2/spring-2014/sharks-of-north-carolina/

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I'm often amazed by these events; was the water so cloudy that no adult could see the gray shapes swimming around out there?

I mean - I don't want to tempt fate - swim in their eating environment - play 'Double Dare You' when you are nothing more then an edible for those type of fish - WTH are people thinking???

Don't go in the water - PERIOD; see a shark...get the hell out & stay out!

sad thing about it they going try to hunt them down like really you should know the risk by swimming in the ocean i dont blame any animals they are doing what they are surpose to be doing

Sharks nibble on us because we're delicious.

Shark sightings & attacks are on the rise globally, for at least 3 yrs ( I have been checking that long, living where I live).
The ocean temperate is heating up, food supply it low. More sea life is coming in closer to shore & even dying.
Some beaches there is NO surfing, rafts, boards etc.., so that people are NOT mistaken as fish. * This may be just theory, because of the slashing, swimming motion & sound/ sonar that the creatures can see/hear/feel*

EXACTLY - and yet it's the young people that are getting maimed - bitten and WTH are those responsible parents in all of this!!!

EGAD - people are just so 'self-inflicted stupid' sometimes it just blows my mind!!!

Huffpost - June 11-2015 (updated 4 hours ago)

Shark attacks are increasing in Hawaii, especially off Maui, and scientists think they have figured out why.
A report due to be released next month by University of Hawaii marine biologists basically concludes that a burgeoning recreation industry is butting up against shark-friendly environmental conditions to create a double whammy of sorts, at least for the human population.
“The coastal habitats around Maui are optimum habitats for tiger sharks, there’s nothing unnatural happening,” says Carl Meyer, a shark researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. “It’s just that we as people have inadvertently created these high-use, recreational ocean locations right next to these habitats that large sharks have been using for eons.”
Meyer and other biologists have been studying the issue of increasing shark attacks at the request of the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources. The DLNR commissioned the study after two people were killed by sharks in Maui’s waters in 2013.


.huffpost.com/us/entry/7558196

Why Sharks Are Attacking More People Than Ever In Hawaii

9 hours ago - USA Today

Shark attack deaths: How common are they?

Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Blame it on Jaws.

The national fear of shark attacks got its start 40 years ago this summer with the release of Jaws, the movie blockbuster that unleashed the primal fear of being eaten alive while swimming.

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Roy Scheider, left, and Richard Dreyfuss are shown in a scene from the movie "Jaws" in 1975.
Over the years since then, shark attacks continue to get plenty of media coverage. On Sunday, two teens swimming in the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast lost arms in shark attacks.
How common are shark attack deaths? So far this year, worldwide six people have been killed by sharks; one of which was in the U.S. (in Hawaii), according to the Florida Museum of Natural History's International Shark Attack File.
This is an unusually deadly start to the year: From 2005 to 2014, an average of six people per year died worldwide after being attacked by a shark. In the U.S., roughly one person per year is killed by a shark

Some may say it's not really a fair fight, however, as about 100 million sharks are killed each year by humans around the world, according to the Shark Research Institute.
One aspect of the North Carolina shark bites was unusual: George Burgess of the Florida Museum of Natural History told the Wilmington Star-News that he has seen only two other cases of successive shark attacks: One in Florida nearly 20 years ago and one in Egypt three or four years ago.
What's not unusual is that the sharks were so close to the shore: The shallow water there is a good place for the sharks to find food, Burgess said, mainly fish, but also, rarely, people. Water temperatures have been warm there, he said, meaning more people are likely going in the water.
"We've had an early summer in the Southeast U.S. and Florida," he said.
Of the 52 attacks in the U.S. last year, Burgess says only one or two resulted in serious injuries, WECT News in Wilmington reported.
Burgess said the sharks involved are "larger, more powerful sharks" and likely of the bull or tiger species, which are much more aggressive and have teeth with serrated edges that can easily cut through flesh and bones, the Star-News reported.
You're actually in more danger just walking on shore than in the water, according to the Shark Attack File: From 1990 to 2006 there were 16 U.S. deaths due to falling in a hole at the beach, vs. 11 shark attack deaths.
Bees, wasps and snakes are responsible for far more deaths each year in the U.S. than sharks, the Shark Attack File also says.
Another comparison: From 1959 to 2010, about 2,000 people were struck and killed by lightning in U.S. coastal states vs 26 killed by sharks.
"This is indeed a tragedy for two teenagers and their families," said Daniel Abel, a marine scientist at Coastal Carolina University.
"But I hope we do not overreact and begin killing sharks," he said. "A healthy ocean needs its sharks, and we have more to fear from the sun (skin cancer), jet skis and surfboards, or even bacteria in the water column that we do from sharks at the beach.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/15/shark-attacks/71251814/

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/florida-boy-survives-shark-attack-466141251590



FLORIDA - the 10 yrs old boy survived

Florida Boy Survives Shark Attack
WED, JUN 17

10-year-old Lucas Vertullo describes being bitten by a bull shark while swimming off Cocoa Beach. WESH's Michelle Meredith reports.

VIDEO

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Another attack, on a 10 yrs old boy.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/another-10-year-old-georgia-boy-bitten-shark-florida-n377271

* 2 Attacks in the same week on 2,
10 yr old boys . In the SAME county, which makes 4 attacks in that country, this year *

http://abcnews.go.com/US/global-shark-attacks-rise-surprising-reasons/story?id=31799899

The surprising reason shark attacks are on the rise

The movie "Jaws" is being re-released.