In this Sunday, May 29, 2016, photo, Gabriel Cordromp, 8, plays on the beach after beach goers were told over the loud speaker to get out of the water at Corona del Mar beach in Newport Beach, Calif….
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The injuries to the woman’s upper torso and shoulder “appear to be consistent with a shark bite”, Jeff Corliss, a spokesman with Orange County Global Medical Center, said Monday evening.
In Newport Beach, California, on Sunday, Maria Korcsmaros was bitten by a shark while she was training for a half-Iron Man competition.
Dr. Humberto Sauri says Maria Korcsmaros was alert and remarkably calm when she came to the emergency room with multiple cuts and fractured ribs.
Authorities had treated the incident as a shark attack from the beginning based on her injuries, even though they said they could not automatically confirm it was a shark.
A woman’s physical condition may have saved her during a Memorial Day weekend shark attack.
The Newport Beach Fire Department’s Marine Operations Division says it suspects a shark attack, but there were no witnesses or reported shark sightings.
The attack prompted authorities to clear the ocean water of swimmers from the Balboa Pier south to Crystal Cove State Beach. The stretch reopened at noon Tuesday.
He said the agency will be working further with local shark expert Chris Lowe, who runs the Shark Lab at Cal State Long Beach, to learn more about shark behaviors.
“Remarkably, her nerves are all functioning”, Dr. Phillip Rotter added, admitting he had never seen such a trauma before.
Williams said lifeguards around the county have had more training in the past year on how to respond to shark sightings, which have spiked in recent years due to warmer El Niño waters.
A hospital official has confirmed that a shark attacked a woman who received large bite marks while swimming in Southern California.
The mother of three (ages 24, 22 and 16) was pulled bleeding from the ocean after lifeguards in a patrol boat noticed she was in distress. “Those are wounds that would have bled a lot, and she was able to tread water and hold her own until help arrived”.
Both doctors also said she was calm throughout the ordeal.
The caretakers said Korcsmaros’ physical fitness certainly played a role in her survival.
Rotter said it’s too early to determine whether she’ll have use of her arm.
“We are treating this as a shark-bite incident and are asking everyone to please stay out of the water in the closure area”, he said.
“It’s a little freaky to think there could be a shark so close out there”, she said.
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Still, the university notes that fatal shark attacks, while undeniably graphic, are so infrequent that beachgoers face a higher risk of being killed by sand collapsing as the result of over achieving sand castle builders.
