“He’s shocked and very rattled,” Colbey told The Australian. “He was very stoked to be able to walk up the beach with me … we could look back on it and be very stoked but also shaken up and in shock.”Ĭolbey drove McGrath to Ballina Hospital, where he was treated for lacerations on his right hip, and then was transported to Lismore Hospital. “I grabbed his two broken bits of surfboard and we looked at each other and counted our blessings that we could actually walk away,” Colbey told The Daily Telegraph. He heard his name being called out and went to help they swam to shore together. He then grabbed half his surfboard and made his way to shore.Ī post shared by Bryce Cameron on at 2:26pm PDTĮlijah Colbey was surfing 55 yards away from McGrath when the incident unfolded. McGrath told police the shark then began to circle him but turned away, according to The Australian. The shark was coming from the deep and hit with its nose and opened its mouth and latched on the board.” “In the big scheme of things that is a juvenile, but it is still big enough to kill,” Cameron told The Daily Telegraph. “He was lying on his board, but if he had been sitting on it he would have lost a leg.”Īnother witness, Amber Hopkins, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp., “This man is lucky to be alive.”Ĭameron said McGrath got a look at the shark and said it was an 11-foot great white shark. It’s at the top of the cold Humboldt current that flows north from Antarctica. Chicama, the one spot in Peru all diehard surfers have heard about, is a surf break by the nondescript fishing village of Puerto Malabrigo in northwest Peru. “He is pretty much the luckiest man on the earth right now,” Cameron told The Daily Telegraph. Peru has the longest left-hand wave in the world. The impact by the shark tossed Abe McGrath into the air, snapped his surfboard in half and left a gaping wound in his right hip, according to several Australian news outlets.įellow surfer Bryce Cameron was just about to enter the water at Main Beach and join 35-year-old McGrath when the attack occurred around 6:30 a.m. “Rips were pulling everywhere, it’s been real busy.An Australian surfer is “lucky to be alive” after a great white shark attacked him from below while he was lying on his surfboard off Iluka in New South Wales. Well get into wave physics a little bit later, but thinking about someone standing on a surfboard is a great opportunity to introduce the first three concepts. “We were pretty busy with the swell,” said Panis. In Huntington Beach, there were 80 rescues on Saturday, and Sunday’s figures will likely be higher, said Huntington Beach Marine Safety Lt. OC Lifeguard Chief Jason Young said there were 48 rescues on Saturday in the areas of South Laguna and areas of Dana Point, and it was just as busy on Sunday. Laguna Beach was busy, but lifeguards did not have a tally on rescues by deadline. Sunday, which was the busiest day with 107 rescues and upward 100,000 people who showed up on shore. Newport Battalion Chief Mike Halphide said there were upward 300,000 people who showed up in Newport Beach Friday through Sunday, and there were about 268 ocean rescues as of 5 p.m. Lifeguard along the coast were busy as heat hit the region and crowds headed to the coast, where big waves have consistently slammed beaches for the past few days. It was washed out back to sea, presumed unharmed. A 20-foot gray whale washed up on shore about a week ago, shocking beachgoers as it tumbled around in strong surf. It’s not the only strange sight at the Wedge in recent weeks.
Lifeguards had warned the couple earlier in the day to stay clear of the area, Leeper said. People don’t know how far out that wave breaks,” Leeper said. “Any time anyone gets close, we have our lifeguard boats show them away. Leeper said lifeguards have put out thousands of boat warnings in the area through the years. The watercraft was washed out to sea by another wave, then destroyed as another set crushed it.
“Everyone who saw it couldn’t believe their eyes, it was unbelievable.” “It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen,” he said. Newport lifeguard Rob Marienthal, who suffered a back injury a few weeks ago and was shooting photos on the sand, said he’s never seen anything like it in his decade of lifeguarding the Wedge.
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