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lukeA Florida kiteboarder died Wednesday after he was attacked by sharks off Stuart Beach on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
Steve Schafer, a 38-year-old kiteboarder and surfer, was pulled from the ocean by a lifeguard Wednesday evening after being attack by at least one shark. He was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition but later died.
It is the first known fatal shark attack on a kiteboarder.
Watch a local news report on the attack here.
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I think that in many of the Atlantic States the rules against fishing for shark within 3 miles of the beach should be lifted. This is the area where most sharks feed and mate and because of the fishing rules the shark population has grown 300 percent.In the future there will be more attacks. When I was living in Florida in the Summer there was 1 shark attack a week that never received national news coverage. Many of these attacks were on teens or surfers I think that the low news coverage was due to the State of Florida not wanting negitive news that could effect tourism.
I saw this on good morning america with more detail. These waters were known to be shark infested at the time he went out. I think there was some poor judgement used and it also put the lifeguard at significant risk.
In South Africa (a poor country), we have Shark nets. It works.