2 animal bites reported in Hawaii -- 1 shark, 1 eel, Emergency officials were deciding Sunday whether to close beaches in Oahu, Hawaii, after a pair of weekend shark attacks sent two victims to the hospital with severe injuries.
The attacks occurred within hours of one another and brought to seven the number of shark attacks off Hawaii's shores this year.
In the first incident, a 44-year-old man was swimming to shore off Lanikai Beach just before noon Saturday when he was attacked, Honolulu Emergency Services Department spokeswoman Shayne Enright said. The man suffered extensive injuries to both feet and was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition, she said.
The man, whose name police had not yet released, was pale and struggled to remain responsive as he was brought to the beach by an outrigger canoe, according to witnesses.
“Injuries were pretty extreme, both legs, just above the ankle were just hanging on,” Lanikai resident Joey Montano told Hawaii News Now, a news portal affiliated with KGMB-TV, KFVE-TV AND KHNL-TV, all based in Honolulu.
After the attack, lifeguards sped through the waters on Jet Skis and urged visitors to clear out of the ocean, essentially closing a stretch of shore from Kailua Beach to Bellows Field Beach Park, Enright said.Later Saturday, a 32-year-old man was rushed to the hospital in serious condition from popular Waikiki Beach after a shark attack caused serious injuries to his left foot, she said.
Saturday's attacks comes eight days after a 25-year-old man lost part of his left leg and some of his fingers in a shark attack on Oahu’s North Shore, according to Hawaii News Now.
Lifeguards on both Lanikai Beach and Waikiki Beach planned to patrol the waters early Sunday and post warning signs if they saw sharks, Enright said.
Shark bites in the region often are no more than “nibbles” but Saturday’s attacks were much more severe, Enright said.
“These last two have been pretty aggressive, resulting in critical injuries,” she said. “It has been an active year [for shark attacks], unfortunately.”
The attacks occurred within hours of one another and brought to seven the number of shark attacks off Hawaii's shores this year.In the first incident, a 44-year-old man was swimming to shore off Lanikai Beach just before noon Saturday when he was attacked, Honolulu Emergency Services Department spokeswoman Shayne Enright said. The man suffered extensive injuries to both feet and was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition, she said.
The man, whose name police had not yet released, was pale and struggled to remain responsive as he was brought to the beach by an outrigger canoe, according to witnesses.
“Injuries were pretty extreme, both legs, just above the ankle were just hanging on,” Lanikai resident Joey Montano told Hawaii News Now, a news portal affiliated with KGMB-TV, KFVE-TV AND KHNL-TV, all based in Honolulu.
After the attack, lifeguards sped through the waters on Jet Skis and urged visitors to clear out of the ocean, essentially closing a stretch of shore from Kailua Beach to Bellows Field Beach Park, Enright said.Later Saturday, a 32-year-old man was rushed to the hospital in serious condition from popular Waikiki Beach after a shark attack caused serious injuries to his left foot, she said.
Saturday's attacks comes eight days after a 25-year-old man lost part of his left leg and some of his fingers in a shark attack on Oahu’s North Shore, according to Hawaii News Now.
Lifeguards on both Lanikai Beach and Waikiki Beach planned to patrol the waters early Sunday and post warning signs if they saw sharks, Enright said.
Shark bites in the region often are no more than “nibbles” but Saturday’s attacks were much more severe, Enright said.
“These last two have been pretty aggressive, resulting in critical injuries,” she said. “It has been an active year [for shark attacks], unfortunately.”
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