Shark Attack
deterring few swimmers
JULY.20.20002, NORTH CAROLINA

EMERALD ISLE — A suspected shark attack in Emerald Isle
over the weekend isn’t keeping swimmers out of the beach town’s waters
Monday, vacationers ventured into the ocean near the site where 15-year-old
Mary Katherine Strong of Greensboro was bitten Saturday by what a marine expert
identified as a 6-to-7-foot bull shark.To read the full story
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June 10 2002
JENSEN BEACH -- A 10-year-old
Port St. Lucie boy was in stable condition Sunday night after being attacked by
a shark as he swam with a group of children 30 yards off the south end of the
public beach.

The attack, among the first in Florida this spring, occurred hours earlier on a
sunny afternoon when Jensen Beach was filled with sunbathers and swimmers.
Yellow flags were posted as 2-foot seas came ashore. Some swimmers said bait
fish could be seen in the water. more
on this story.

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April 30, 2002

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) --
A shark dragged a man from his friend's arms and killed him Tuesday off
Australia's southern coast, officials said.
The victim, a 23-year-old professional diver, was diving for scallops from an
anchored boat with a friend when he was attacked by the shark, South Australia
Ambulance spokesman Lee Francis said.
More...

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Shark Expert Seriously Injured by
Shark in Bahamas

Fri Apr 12, 9:26 AM ET
MIAMI (Reuters) - A shark expert known for unusual research methods and
"pushing the envelope" in his study of the feared marine predator's behavior was
badly bitten by a shark in the Bahamas, colleagues said on Thursday
Read the whole story in the news sections
of the site..

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Relentless
shark attacks Deerfield Beach snorkeler

March 16 2002 A snorkeler hunting for sand dollars 300 yards off Deerfield Beach Friday morning became the prey of a 3-foot nurse shark. Robert Land, 39, of Deerfield Beach, said he was swimming above a school of fish, when the shark lunged forward and clamped onto his left arm.Read the whole story in the news section of the site.

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FEB.27TH.2002
Turks and Caicos Islands.
A retired British policeman has survived a 33-hour capsize ordeal in shark-infested waters which claimed another man's life.

Philip Harding and three Caribbean policemen were washed overboard when
their fishing boat was capsized by a freak wave off the Turks and Caicos
Islands.

Two of the men tried to swim for help and one of them was killed by a
shark. The other is still missing, some 96 hours after the capsize on
Saturday.
Read the whole story in the news section of the
site.

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SYDNEY, Australia
-- A 35-year-old man has had a harrowing encounter with a
shark while paddling a kayak in the habor waters just a few kilometers west of
downtown Sydney.
The man was in in his kayak Thursday evening near the Cabarita Marina in the
Parramatta River when the shark struck.