Shark kills body boarder in Central California
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) – Authorities say the
victim of a deadly shark attack in Central California was a body
boarder whose leg was bitten off.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown tells the Lompoc Record
that the 20-year-old was attacked Friday morning at Surf Beach.
Brown says a friend on a surfboard got the victim to shore but he
bled to death.
Brown didn’t identify the man but says he’s from Orange County
and attended the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Surf Beach is on the property of Vandenberg Air Force Base but
is open to the public.
Vandenberg says the base closed the beach and two others for 72
hours.
The last such attack at Surf Beach was in 2008, when a shark bit
a surfer’s board.
A great white shark killed a woman in 2003 at Avila Beach, about
30 miles north of Vandenberg.
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