A stretch of Newport Beach will remain closed to swimmers today as officials attempt to determine what left a woman with bloody bites on her body while in the water off Corona del March.
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The boy was taken to a local hospital, where he was listed as being in stable condition.
His injuries are serious, but according to Key, they are not life threatening.
“We can and should expect the number of attacks to be higher each year”, he said.
Banks pointed out that there haven’t been many shark attacks at Neptune Beach over the years.
A hospital official has confirmed that a shark attacked a woman who received large bite marks while swimming in Southern California.
The closure of the area waters Sunday evening meant beach-goers had to go elsewhere for Monday’s Memorial Day holiday, or else remain on the sand without entering the possibly unsafe water.
A shark sighting in October of 2015 shut down a stretch of the beach near Newport Pier. Still closed on Monday was Corona del Mar State Beach, located in Newport Beach, where the incident occurred, as well as some adjacent coastline.
Officials at a beach in Florida are on the lookout for a shark that attacked and injured a young boy over the weekend.
Thousands of Memorial Day beachgoers were kept out of the water Monday (May 30, 2016) as lifeguards searched miles of popular Southern California shoreline for a shark they believe attacked a swimmer the day before.
The stretch of beach from Balboa Pier south to Crystal Cove remains closed today after a woman was allegedly bitten by a shark on Sunday afternoon off coast of Corona Del Mar in Newport Beach.
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A 13-year-old boy was bitten by a shark at a Florida beach on Sunday even though he and his stepfather were wading in just two feet of water.
