Two Shark Attacks in Two Days on North Carolina Coast
Officials after the first attack at Atlantic Beach called it an isolated case and one that shouldn’t really concern folks. Then a day latter at North Topsail beach another attack on a swimmer when he found a group of sharks following him and he couldn’t get out of the water before getting bit. This attack resulted in minor injuries and the boy was treated and released.
In the first attack a woman wadding in waist deep water at Atlantic Beach was bitten in the thigh. The shark bite tearing flesh and muscle as the woman fought back the shark also bit her in the foot. Her injuries were bit more significant but she too was treated and released.
Storms stirring the water and causing the water to be murky are what officials are attributing these attacks to making it difficult for the sharks to identify what it is they are going after. You probably stand a better chance of getting caught in a rip current then you do being attacked by a shark but two isolated cases in to days one has to think twice before taking a dip.
New Bern Sun Journal
Wilmington Morning Star
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Comment by kathleen — July 30, 2007 @ 1:17 pm