HONOLULU — Two men were seriously injured Saturday in separate shark attacks off Oahu, authorities said. ADVERTISING HONOLULU — Two men were seriously injured Saturday in separate shark attacks off Oahu, authorities said. About 7:20 p.m. Saturday, a shark bit
HONOLULU — Two men were seriously injured Saturday in separate shark attacks off Oahu, authorities said.
About 7:20 p.m. Saturday, a shark bit a 32-year-old man’s left foot as he was in the water off Waikiki beach, the KITV station reported.
The man is in serious condition at a nearby trauma center, the TV station reported.
Another man who surfs at the beach every day saw the rescue workers arrive.
“We were surfing out there. It was firing, and I hear all this commotion, but I had no idea it had to do with the shark. It’s pretty crazy,” Kyle Kaiser told the TV station. “We see sharks out here, you know, but mostly small sharks. I never hear about a hoard of big, tiger sharks or anything like that. So yeah, very rare. I couldn’t believe it.”
Kaiser remembers last year’s shark attacks happening in October, even referencing a 2003 incident when Bethany Hamilton, a professional surfer, lost her arm in a shark attack off Kauai. “It seems like October is the month where this kind of thing happens,” he said.
Eariler Saturday, a 44-year-old man was wounded after what appeared to be a shark attack in the waters off Lanikai beach in Oahu, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.
The victim was injured in his lower legs, the Star-Advertiser reported.
These are the sixth and seventh shark attacks in Hawaii this year and the second and third in as many weeks on Oahu. Earlier this month, a surfer lost most of his left leg after a shark attacked him off Oahu’s north shore. One attack, which occurred in April on Maui, was fatal.
All shark attacks this year have happened in turbid or murky water.
