DUNSBOROUGH, Australia – This week, Hollywood debuts the movie “Shark Night 3D. But it pales with reality – this was shark weekend. A shark, believed to be a Great White Shark, killed an Australian surfer while he was body-boarding with four other friends Sunday near a packed beach at a popular surfing spot called “Boneyards” in Bunker Bay, on the western Australia coast. ABC News reported the shark bit and ripped the legs off James Burden, 21. Authorities cordoned off the beach and are trawling the area for the shark and the man’s missing limbs. Senior Police Sergeant Craig Anderson said this is the first shark attack in the area in more than 20 years. A young woman vacationing in Puerto Rico was luckier. Lydia Strunk was on a guided moonlight kayak excursion in Bioluminescene Bay when it a shark shredding her right leg while she was swimming. “And then the person next to me asked…Did you feel that?” Strunk told ABC News. And moments later, I felt an impact….a strong impact against my right leg. It pulled me into the water a bit. And then I felt the shark swim across my left leg and swim away.” She said she couldn’t believe what had happened. The tour-guide jumped over her kayak and tied a tourniquet around her leg. Her sense of humor is intact. She wrote the phrase “Number-one chum” written on the case on her shredded right leg.
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