Shark Bites Surfer Off Australia's West Coast

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Fellow surfers dragged the man to shore and drove him to meet an ambulance more than an hour away.

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[BillKaneEMT]

An hour away to meet the ambulance? Remote beach sounds like a bit of an understatement. Here's a slightly more detailed article. http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/he-was-just-holding-his-stomach-in-20120829-2512s.html. Sounds like he's going to make it and regain at least some use of his arm. It says they don't know what type of shark it was but the locals apparently saw a 4 meter great white at a nearby reef.

[island emt]

Actually Bill: He was lucky that an ambo was that close.

Back in the mid 70's I was stationed about 80 km north of that beach at a small navy comm site in ExmouthWA.

A little over 200 thousand acres of antenna fields that covered the upper half of the Northwest Cape.

We were 250 klicks north of canarvon. There is nothing but a couple of large stations between Exmouth & Canarvon and the road in places isn't much more than a couple of tire tracks through the the bush.

One roadhouse about the halfway point that served up really good beer and road burgers. Whatever got run down by the road trains was ground up and cooked. Sheep , cow , horse, Kanga, didn't much matter. Boy I sure miss those trips.

We used to fish all up & down that coastline for great whites and sell the sharks teeth to a jewelry maker for necklaces for a buck Aus a piece. {at the time us dollar was 94 cents to Aus $}.

I would imagine that some things have changed since We left there in 1976, but I'd wager it's still a very remote place in the WA landscape.