Watch as a boy is thrown off surfboard by a shark in ‘shark bite capital of the world’
A chance to unwind at one of Florida’s beaches almost turned into a nightmare for a boy and his father on Thanksgiving weekend.
On Saturday, Shaun Moore posted on Twitter his 9-year-old son’s rare encounter with a blacktip shark at New Smyrna Beach, which is known as the “shark bite capital of the world.”
Luckily, Chandler didn’t get bit, but while surfing in low waters a blacktip shark knocked him off his board.
“What’s funny is, we didn’t even know that was a shark until we had come back in,” Shaun told The New York Post. “We surfed for another half hour after that. It didn’t faze him at all. He’s a little daredevil.”
Shaun also told the Post that Chandler has been surfing since he was 4.
This year at least five people have been chomped by a shark at New Smyrna Beach. But bites have been decreasing in the last few years. Last year, Volusia County saw four unprovoked shark attacks — in 2017 there were nine.
This story was originally published December 3, 2019 at 12:35 PM with the headline "Watch as a boy is thrown off surfboard by a shark in ‘shark bite capital of the world’."
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