Another California surfer has been attacked by a shark, but unlike last week's victim, he survived the experience. The 25-year-old man was hospitalized with serious injuries after being bitten while surfing in Humboldt County, the Eureka Times-Standard reports. A group of fellow surfers scrambled to save the man's life after he made his way to shore bleeding heavily from a 14-inch bite wound.
A local researcher who tracks great white sharks says they are most numerous in the area at this time of year. "If you are a surfer up here and you go in the water in the fall, the odds are good that a great white has swam by you at some point, and you didn't even know it ," he says, adding that people are more likely to die from a car crash on the way to the beach than from a shark attack. "In most cases, sharks have a pretty good idea of what their food sources look like," he says. "But if the water gets really murky, either because of heavy wave or wind action, that's when a person on a surfboard starts looking a lot more like a seal ." (More California stories.)
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