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Old 10-23-2010, 09:17 AM   #1
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Santa Barbara Shark Attack: Shark Kills Swimmer, Closes California Beaches









LOS ANGELES — A bodyboarder killed by a shark at a Central California beach cried out to his friend for help as the shark flashed out of the water, bit into his leg and pulled him under in a tide of blood, the friend said Friday.
Matthew Garcia was surfing 2 feet from his friend, 19-year-old Lucas Ransom, when the shark attacked, he said. The whole incident lasted seconds.
"When the shark hit him, he just said, 'Help me, dude!' He knew what was going on," Garcia told The Associated Press. "It was really fast. You just saw a red wave and this water is blue – as blue as it could ever be – and it was just red, the whole wave."
As huge waves broke over his head, Garcia tried to find his friend in the surf but couldn't. He decided to get help, but turned around again as he was swimming to shore and saw Ransom's red bodyboard pop up. Garcia swam to his friend and did chest compressions as he brought him to shore.
Ransom already appeared dead and his leg was mauled, he said.
"He was just floating in the water. I flipped him over on his back and underhooked his arms. I was pressing on his chest and doing rescue breathing in the water," Garcia said. "He was just kind of lifeless, just dead weight."
The University of California, Santa Barbara, junior had a severe wound to his left leg and died a short time later at Surf Beach, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. The beach, 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles, is on the property of Vandenberg Air Force Base but is open to the public.
Sheriff's deputies patrolled the coastline to search for Ransom's missing leg but were only able to recover the boogie board, which had a 1-foot segment on the side bitten off.
Federal and state Fish and Game officials were working to identify the type of shark that attacked.

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Old 10-23-2010, 09:44 AM   #2
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Very sad, RIP. Be careful out there everyone!
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Old 10-23-2010, 09:45 AM   #3
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Read about it yesterday at the shark research site. This article you posted is a tough read. Man..... Yes RIP.
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Old 10-23-2010, 10:19 AM   #4
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Yeah, such a bummer But this is the inherent risk that we are willing to take when we paddle/swim out into the ocean.......we enter into their world and they unfortunately don't have fingers to touch and figure out what you are before taking a bite.....if you buy the mistake in identity theory............such a bummer when it happens
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Old 10-23-2010, 10:38 AM   #5
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....if you buy the mistake in identity theory............such a bummer when it happens
I don't buy it for a second. They'll eat whatever is available.

Hard read was a good description of the story. Very sad.

Friggen GWs. They should remove them from the no take list and put a bounty on them.
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Old 10-23-2010, 11:16 AM   #6
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I don't buy it for a second. They'll eat whatever is available.

Hard read was a good description of the story. Very sad.

Friggen GWs. They should remove them from the no take list and put a bounty on them.
There is no shortage of seals...
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Old 10-23-2010, 11:16 AM   #7
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You become part of a much larger food chain when you enter the ocean. RIP young man!
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Old 10-23-2010, 11:50 AM   #8
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Friggen GWs. They should remove them from the no take list and put a bounty on them.[/QUOTE]


diasagree 100 %.......they serve an important role in the ecosystem and help keep the system healthy and balanced.......fortunately people get out and enjoy what they love to do and unfortunately end up at the wrong place at the wrong time.......does that mean we should go take the GW's out? I don't think so, just my .02
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Old 10-23-2010, 03:20 PM   #9
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Complete tragedy but it will continue to happen.

The tax man definitely has an important role. Anyone notice that the fur-bags were pretty much non-existent this summer???
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Old 10-23-2010, 08:54 PM   #10
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Friggen GWs. They should remove them from the no take list and put a bounty on them.
Using this thought process, we should make driving illegal as a lot of people die driving or being hit by cars. Include boats, motorcycles, and planes too as more people die in one year riding boats, motorcycles, and planes then GW's have killed in over 100 years.

Let's also include peanuts due to allergies causing death and food in general as people die from choking. Heck, make living illegal as day to day living is full of risks that can be fatal.
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Old 10-23-2010, 10:36 PM   #11
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I wonder if this guy was wearing a seal-colored wet suit? That was the first thing that I thought of after reading this article. The guy who was killed in Solana Beach was wearing a black wetsuit.

I don't know anything about a shark's eyesight but if they can see colors they just might avoid something that does not look like their typical prey. Maybe someone should develop a line of wetsuits that sets surfers and swimmers apart from what a shark considers to be food.

Just a thought.

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Old 10-27-2010, 04:30 PM   #12
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Friggen GWs. They should remove them from the no take list and put a bounty on them.[/QUOTE]

Why is it that human beings want to eliminate anything that they feel is a threat? Sorry man but that is truly an ignorant statement. I mean, all creatures on this planet serve some type of purpose. We can't just remove them because they are in our way.

Once you enter the water you are in their world. Assume the risk, be safe, and respect (not fear) sharks.
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Old 10-27-2010, 09:26 PM   #13
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Correction, it's God's world.

$1000 bounty might even entice me to try to catch em on my kayak.

No bounty would be necessary for seals. Just give me a tag..
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Looks like a pattern to me...

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