Re: 03/28/2008 Jacques Peens (South Africa)
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:21 pm
Shark bites fisherman
04 Apr 2008
Dries Liebenberg
A holiday-maker from Pretoria was bitten on the thigh while fishing from his surfski in the sea on the KZN south coast.
Jacques Peens (39) was camping with friends and family at Scottburgh and was fishing with a group of fishermen on the open sea — beyond the shark nets — when he had a bite on a drift line that he had set up for game fish.
After about 10 minutes, the fish came to the surface and he saw that it was a shark.
Peens said he let out the line and was trying to cut it as the shark appeared next to his boat twice.
When the shark appeared next to the kayak for the third time, it half-lifted itself out of the water and bit Peens’s leg through the kayak.
The shark bit a hole about as wide as the top of his hat, Peens said, and made a circle with his hands to show the circumference of the wound. Fortunately, no muscles were injured.
“I’m not really too fond of blood. Usually, I would’ve fainted, but I managed to keep my wits about me this time,” Peens said.
He quickly bit off the line and rowed about 1,5 km to the beach. Other fisherman went out to help him.
Peens was treated at Kingsway Hospital and then underwent a three-hour operation at the Chatsmead Garden Hospital in Durban.
The hole in his leg was covered with a flap of skin and he was released from hospital on Monday.
But the active sportsman had to spend the rest of his seaside holiday in the shade of his tent, watching others enjoying the water.
Dr Geremy Cliff of the Natal Sharks Board said it is unusual for a shark to jump out of the water to bite someone.
“He’ll bite to survive and the fisherman must then decide if he wants to take on the shark or if he wants to say goodbye to his hook,” Cliff said.
“I don’t know what kind of shark it was,” Peens said.
“It was one with teeth,” he joked, adding that it is the last time he will try to take a hook out of a shark’s mouth.
http://www.witness.co.za/?showcontent&g ... id%5D=5988
04 Apr 2008
Dries Liebenberg
A holiday-maker from Pretoria was bitten on the thigh while fishing from his surfski in the sea on the KZN south coast.
Jacques Peens (39) was camping with friends and family at Scottburgh and was fishing with a group of fishermen on the open sea — beyond the shark nets — when he had a bite on a drift line that he had set up for game fish.
After about 10 minutes, the fish came to the surface and he saw that it was a shark.
Peens said he let out the line and was trying to cut it as the shark appeared next to his boat twice.
When the shark appeared next to the kayak for the third time, it half-lifted itself out of the water and bit Peens’s leg through the kayak.
The shark bit a hole about as wide as the top of his hat, Peens said, and made a circle with his hands to show the circumference of the wound. Fortunately, no muscles were injured.
“I’m not really too fond of blood. Usually, I would’ve fainted, but I managed to keep my wits about me this time,” Peens said.
He quickly bit off the line and rowed about 1,5 km to the beach. Other fisherman went out to help him.
Peens was treated at Kingsway Hospital and then underwent a three-hour operation at the Chatsmead Garden Hospital in Durban.
The hole in his leg was covered with a flap of skin and he was released from hospital on Monday.
But the active sportsman had to spend the rest of his seaside holiday in the shade of his tent, watching others enjoying the water.
Dr Geremy Cliff of the Natal Sharks Board said it is unusual for a shark to jump out of the water to bite someone.
“He’ll bite to survive and the fisherman must then decide if he wants to take on the shark or if he wants to say goodbye to his hook,” Cliff said.
“I don’t know what kind of shark it was,” Peens said.
“It was one with teeth,” he joked, adding that it is the last time he will try to take a hook out of a shark’s mouth.
http://www.witness.co.za/?showcontent&g ... id%5D=5988