Earth Changes
Shane Garthwait said he was floating on his board when he felt a sudden tug on his right foot, which was dangling in the water, according to the questionnaire filled out for the Florida Museum of Natural History with the University of Florida.
The shark, which Garthwait didn't get a good look at, left a 1½ inch cut on the top of Garthwait's right foot, a half-inch cut on the back of his ankle and some bruising on his foot, according to the report.
Garthwait said he'd been surfing south of the Jetty for about an hour when he was bit Sunday afternoon and had seen two sharks swimming in the area prior, according to the report.
Garthwait declined treatment and said his father, a nurse, would look at the wound later, according to the report.

Dead eels at Lake Tutira this week. Hawke's Bay Regional Council is investigating.
About 20 dead or dying eels were found, and there were reports this week of dead trout at the lake, about 40 kilometres north on Napier.
It is the second time this year that a major die-off has been detected.
In January, trout and eels died en masse in an event thought to be linked to low levels of dissolved oxygen in the lake's surface water.
"Fish kills have not been uncommon. However, the occurrence of two large fish kills in two consecutive years is unusual and of particular concern," Hawke's Bay Regional Council said on Thursday.
"Widespread hazardous tsunami waves are possible," the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) said in a message after the quake, which struck the New Ireland region of Papua New Guinea at a depth of 73 km.
The tsunami waves are forecast to reach one to three meters above the tide level along some coasts of the archipelago in the South West Pacific region.
Commuters began leaving work early on Wednesday, hoping to beat the storm.
But they quickly found themselves on streets that were clogged with traffic that was inching along on snow-slick streets.
Cars fish-tailed, spun out, and collided. Motorists, some with their kids in their cars, who had made scant progress tried to keep their patience.
After more than three hours of waiting, some abandoned their vehicles and started walking.
Others hoped they wouldn't run out of gas.
Kimberly Wrolstad had been stuck on Interstate 5 heading to Tigard for about 90 minutes on Wednesday afternoon.
'It's frustrating,' she said. 'I don't know what's going on. I don't know if there are accidents. I know some of the trucks are having difficulties.'
Some drivers in Portland took to twitter to voice their frustrations about the clogged traffic.
'I've been stuck in snow traffic for over an hour & maps says it's going to take 2 more hours to get home,' Twitter user Cortney wrote on Wednesday amid the snow storm.
The baby was delivered around 6:30pm on Tuesday through an elective cesarean section by doctors at Med-In Specialist Hospital, Osogbo Street, The Nation reports.
The mother, surgeon and nurses were shocked to discover the anomaly, as various scans underwent in the course of the pregnancy indicated a set of twins.
According to one of the nurses who was in the delivery room, they had prepared two cots for each of the twins but were shocked when they saw that they were conjoined.
"This is the first time I am seeing anything like this. I have watched it in movies but seeing it in real life was such an experience for me. Thankfully, the surgeon ensured that they survived," said the nurse.
The baby was resuscitated and then transferred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) for advance care on Wednesday.
Linda Pennfield from Spokane Valley and her husband have one theory on what the noise might be. She says the sound was so loud and so persistent last night, her husband actually got out of his bed and jumped in the car to track it down. His conclusion? The sound was coming from all the snow plows, as the metal plows scraped against the ground.

Frank Marra, of Kinne Road in DeWitt, bundles up as he clears his driveway of snow. Syracuse set a record low for Dec. 16 this morning, when temperatures fell to 2 below zero.
The temperature at Hancock International Airport, the official weather station for Syracuse, hit 2 below zero over the last hour.
The record for Dec. 16 had been minus 1, set in 1917.
If this makes you feel any warmer, today's record low isn't even close to the coldest December day on record. That belongs to Dec. 20, 1942, when Syracuse hit 26 below zero.
The storm was expected to race across the upper Plains overnight into Friday and wallop the Midwest and the Great Lakes region by Saturday morning, forecasters said.
The storm could leave behind 2 feet of snow in Yosemite National Park in Nevada and parts of Wyoming and Utah.
That's what you call a coast to coast storm. Advisories all over the place! #decima pic.twitter.com/o8xCYQSAPUOne person was dead in Oregon — a man in his late 50s who was found covered in a layer of ice and snow in his driveway Wednesday night in Albany, the Linn County Sheriff's Office said.
— Jim Cantore (@JimCantore) December 16, 2016
And the bombardment won't let up on its way east. Green Bay and Madison could both get more than a foot of snow by the weekend, forecasters said.
For Cheverly mayor Mike Callahan the mystery is undefinable, and he accepts the phenomenon as a "fun fact" that brings the town together.
"The booms are one of our amazing little mysteries that drive us closer together," Callahan told local station NBC4. "You know, every community has its lore, has its myths."
While the mayor looks on the brighter side, not all residents feel cozy about the mysterious noises.
Cheverly resident Nikki Greco has taken matters into her own hands by keeping track of the booms, which, according to her, sound like a Mack truck ramming into her house.
"It seems like they're the king of the neighborhood," resident Max Lopes said.
Lopes has taken several videos of bears he sees weekly.
"It seems like they're not scared of anything at all," he said.
That could be why one bear tried to attack an off-duty sheriff's deputy and his kids on Tuesday night.
Wildlife officials said it happened outside a home on Live Oak Canyon Road when the deputy spotted three bears going through a trash can. The bigger bear, weighing an estimated 400 pounds, tried to attack.














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