Swimming has been banned in the Sea of Japan off Russia's Far Eastern Primorye Territory after two shark attacks in the past week have left two people hospitalized, Russian media report.
The first attack occurred Wednesday when a 25-year-old man lost both arms up to the elbow, Pravda reported. He was hospitalized in serious condition but expected to survive, according to the report.
Witnesses said the shark was about 13 feet (4 meters) long with large fins, according to the Pravda report.
The second attack occurred in a nearby area Thursday when a 16-year-old boy suffered severe wounds to his legs, RIA Novosti reported. The boy was hospitalized in Vladivostok, the report said. The boy's diving suit prevented the shark from taking his legs, according to a Moscow Times report.
Authorities suspect the same shark was responsible for both attacks, according to the Pravda report.
Alexander Sokolovsky, a candidate of biological sciences at the Far Eastern Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Pravda that recent storms may have made the waters off Russia's eastern coast more desirable for sharks.
"After a typhoon, the waters here become even better for sharks. The sharks are very sensitive to ecology, but the water here is clear," Pravda quoted Sokolovsky as saying. "They come here for food. When there is a shortage of their common food – fish and squid – they swim here searching for bigger food – seals, for example. Maybe the shark took those two people for seals."
Great white sharks have been spotted in the region before, but these are the first attacks Sokolovsky has seen in 51 years in the area, according to Pravda.
Authorities were putting together a team to find and kill the suspect shark, according to the RIA Novosti report.
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o dear
leave the --- sharks alone.
I would say that being that the shark attacked two humans, it *is* a human predator.....
I would say you know little about sharks
We should respect the ocean and just leave sharks alone... We are in "their" world when we enter the sea; they don't enter "our" world.
If you think about it, the ocean is just a huge aquarium and when you enter it, you may be mistaken for food. Too bad for the both of those people.
They should just catch em, then some passive probing; lost, out of the elements, these sharks need to be in SA, sharks annomous, and be re-habilitated, like if we tagged them to learn about em, how would there transmitters guide them? or recievers perhaps, my teeth are wired to my brain, that's why it hurts so dam bad when I get them fixed...Just something I wonder.
Kids around me have a lightning whistle when they go swimmin, did we already accidently kill the "shark detector species" by accident? Maybe a fern on the bow of old salty beards vessel? Who knows, can't rule out a shrimp either, maybe ya can, maybe some weird species of lava dweller is the "shark detector siren", that be so much better then a Skud whistle in my book!
Yours Truely,
Flawed specimin
When I say catch em, I mean, just hook em up with a nice area to free range, then smell em, give em some smells, etc,
theres enough uncut six pack holders on this earth to do it, it's true, distrubution is a real problem
And what are we gaining by killing "the" shark? Even though mankind is supposedly intelligent, we are the most ignorant of all creatures created.
I agree with you, Nap3Null.
That shark is definitely an alcoholic.
Humans kill and eat all sorts of animals. This is bad. Animal milk and fat contains harmful enzymes, wrecking our arteries and hearts. If you stop eating meat and animal fat immediately, you can avoid diabetes and heart diseases. Americans are too big and very heavy for their own good. Time to change your eating habits, America. Its beautiful to be fit and slim. Obesity is ugly.
Save a cow! Eat a vegetarian today!
enjoy your grass and we'll enjoy our meat but thanks for your concern about our health means alot
if the shark left the ocean and went in to those peoples houses and shot them to dead,then im all for killing them,if those guys went in to the water and the shark "acted" shark,then i say the shark was hungry
Mike:
I couldn't make heads nor tails out of either of your posts.
Your truly,
banasy©
People are. Over fishing the oceans so you are the new steak tar tar swim at your own risk. Dumb and dumber..
Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. $10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.
So many pansies in this world. I bet they would just float there and let the shark eat them,( maybe offer them a tofu leg.. Haha) seeing how their in the sharks environment and all, kinda like a fish flake in a goldfish bowl. Get real! Can you say community fish fry, yum
I think you all should stop argueing about what people should do to gods creatures. Sharks were here before use so we just need to deal with it. Because if you take the time to study them you might under stand them.
It's too bad that the sharks have been attacking. Maybe its time to realize these magnificent creatures have been hunted and killed for their fins, and then left to die horrible deaths. We as humans seem to have no regard for living creatures, just go to a fishing pier and see all the bait fish out of water, that is like putting someone underwater and watch them drown. We are killing our oceans and our wild life, when do we wake up..