Florida: Fatal attack on kiteboarder

[KeyWestSkipper]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_re_us/us_fatal_shark_attack

Sad news. Kiteboards are popular around here. When we get strong Santa Ana winds blowing it's incredible the speed and altitudes these guys attain. I'd guess he was in the water and messing with his rig when attacked.

 

[rbh]

Re: Florida: Fatal attack on kiteboarder

YIKES.

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: Florida: Fatal attack on kiteboarder

he was down, his board and sail may have attracted the sharks.

 

[robert graham]

Re: Florida: Fatal attack on kiteboarder

The news said there were "thousands of sharks" schooling off the Florida coast, when he hit the water things went very badly for this guy, sharks chewed him up and he bled to death a bit later. There's gotta be better ways to go than that!

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: Florida: Fatal attack on kiteboarder

true the do school up this time of year, waiting for the waters to warm, and they move along.

 

[JRJ]

Re: Florida: Fatal attack on kiteboarder

Sorry for the guys friends and family. No wonder there are so many kiteboarders in the Columbia River Gorge. More wind and no sharks.

 

[Tim Frank]

Re: Florida: Fatal attack on kiteboarder

Therer are sure no guarantees.
We lost a guy some years ago here in Ontario, in one of the Great Lakes, to a Muskie.

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: Florida: Fatal attack on kiteboarder

saw the news tonight, the aerial footage showed a huge school of sharks, he did not have a chance.

 

[kenmyfam]

Re: Florida: Fatal attack on kiteboarder

Tragic !!!
It may well be cold up here but we do not have gators or sharks to worry about.

 

[KeyWestSkipper]

Re: Florida: Fatal attack on kiteboarder

What kind of sharks are they that school up like that? Bulls?

 

[pecheux]

Re: Florida: Fatal attack on kiteboarder

Therer are sure no guarantees.
We lost a guy some years ago here in Ontario, in one of the Great Lakes, to a Muskie.

Are you serious ??? Never heard of a musky attacking humans ... how big was that "thang" ?

 

[Tim Frank]

Re: Florida: Fatal attack on kiteboarder

Are you serious ??? Never heard of a musky attacking humans ... how big was that "thang" ?

I think it was Lake Huron.
Group of 5-6 guys swimming off a beach, muskie attacked one of them. His buddies clubbed the fish and got him and fish out of water...it was 60 pounds +.
Victim was a haemophiliac and bled to death.
Clearly not as physically damaging as a shark attack, but I guess a 60 lb. muskie can do same damage.