A 31-year-old surfer from northern California is recovering from a shark attack that left horrific bite marks on his right thigh and leg. Video player above: Top Stories October 7, 2022 Jared Trainor wasn’t sure if a seal or a shark hit him with his board during a Sunday outing in Centerville Beach, he told the Times newspaper- Humboldt County Standard. The animal had its right leg and board clenched in its jaws, he said. Underwater, the experienced surfer grabbed the attacker’s body with one hand and kicked him in the head with his free leg until he let go and walked away. swim, he said. Trainor returned to the beach where another surfer had a cell phone he was using to call for help. “I don’t remember the first contact,” he told the newspaper. “It kind of happened so fast.” Surgeons stapled his open wounds, which stretched nearly 19 inches (48 centimeters) or the length of the shark’s mouth. Photos of a recovering Trainor and his injured leg are posted on the Instagram account of The Shop, a surf shop in Arcata. His sister, Haley Martino, said in a fundraising post on GoFundMe that her brother was bitten by a great white shark. In 2020, a kayaker narrowly escaped a great white shark at Shelter Cove in Humboldt County. post that the bite was from a shark. “From our recollections of our members, we haven’t had an incident like this. It is a reminder that there are many dangers to be aware of while at the beach,” the department said in its post.
A 31-year-old surfer from Northern California is recovering from a shark attack that left him with horrific bite marks on his right thigh and leg.
- Video player above: Top Stories from October 7, 2022
Jared Trainor wasn’t sure if a seal or a shark knocked him off his board during a Sunday outing to Centerville Beach, he told the Humboldt County Times-Standard newspaper. The animal had its right leg and board clenched in its jaws, he said.
Underwater, the experienced surfer grabbed the attacker’s body with one hand and kicked him in the head with his free leg until he let go and walked away. swimming, he said. Trainor returned to the beach where another surfer had a cell phone he was using to call for help.
“I don’t remember the first contact,” he told the newspaper. “It kind of happened so fast.”
Surgeons stapled his open wounds, which stretched nearly 19 inches (48 centimeters) or the length of the shark’s mouth.
Photos of a recovering Trainor and his injured leg are posted on the Instagram account of The Shop, a surf shop in Arcata. His sister, Haley Martino, said in a GoFundMe fundraising post that her brother was bitten by a great white shark.
In 2020, a kayaker narrowly escaped a great white shark in Shelter Cove, Humboldt County.
The Ferndale Volunteer Fire Department confirmed in a social media post that the bite was from a shark.
“From our recollections of our members, we haven’t had an incident like this. It is a reminder that there are many dangers to be aware of while at the beach,” the department said in its post.
