Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Man bit by shark

|
|
 
  
Published: Sept. 10, 2008 at 9:29 PM

HONOLULU, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A 40-year-old surfer in Hawaii was in serious condition at a Honolulu hospital after being bitten by a shark.

The man was bitten at about 5 p.m. Tuesday near Kahana Bay in Ka'a'awa, KITV, Honolulu, reported Wednesday.

A fellow surfer accompanied the man to shore near Kahana Bay, the station reported. He reportedly sustained two shark bites; one took out 90 percent of his outer right thigh.

"He actually was a big help. He's the one that controlled the bleeding until firefighters and paramedics got here," said EMS spokesman Brian Cheplic.

© 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
The Tibetan Moniam Festival in China Super Bowl XLVI ticker tape victory parade The making of the Oscars
The Chicago Auto Show The Most Desirable Women of 2012 Tu Bishvat Migron settlement
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 25
Meryl Streep and Colin Firth attend the "BAFTA" ceremony in London
View Caption
fark
When you yell "bingo," you better be damn sure you have bingo. Cause if you don't, we will find...
Trading crack for a lapdance, yelling racial slurs, assaulting police, spitting blood, and beating...
History will remember George H.W. Bush for his part in the first Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin...
And now, pictures of dogs underwater
There are many layers to the OWS onion, and each one is more difficult than the last to peel back....
Remember that YouTube Dad who shot daughter's laptop? Apparently some of the local city leaders...