A man swimming with a group training for a triathlon was killed by a shark off a southern California beach on Friday, fire and life guard officials said, the first fatal attack in the region in nearly 50 years.
The unidentified man, aged between 55 and 60, was swimming with a group of athletes off Solana Beach, north of San Diego, when he was attacked, the officials said.
He was brought to shore by the other swimmers and pronounced dead at the scene.
“It was obviously a shark attack. He had very severe injuries to both legs. It is very uncommon, we rarely even see sharks here,” Dismas Ableman, Solana Beach deputy fire chief, told Fox News.
The last reported fatal shark attack in the region was in 1959, according to the International Shark Attack file, which is run by the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Coast guard and police helicopters flew over the area trying to spot the shark. It was not known what species of shark was involved.[via reuters]
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[...] Shark Attack in Solana Beach, North County San DiegoThe unidentified man, aged between 55 and 60, was swimming with a group of athletes off Solana Beach, north of San Diego, when he was attacked, the officials said. He was brought to shore by the other swimmers and pronounced dead at the …Untitled - http://www.digsvid.com [...]
[...] Shark Attack in Solana Beach, North County San Diego“It was obviously a shark attack. He had very severe injuries to both legs. It is very uncommon, we rarely even see sharks here,” Dismas Ableman, Solana Beach deputy fire chief, told Fox News. The last reported fatal shark attack in the …Untitled - http://www.digsvid.com [...]
