{"id":10108,"date":"2012-04-20T04:21:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T02:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/man-dies-in-south-africa-great-white-shark-attack\/"},"modified":"2012-04-20T04:21:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T02:21:27","slug":"man-dies-in-south-africa-great-white-shark-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/man-dies-in-south-africa-great-white-shark-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in South Africa great white shark attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN, April 19<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; A man in his 20s was killed<br \/>\nby a great white shark about 5 metres (16 feet) long that bit<br \/>\noff his leg when he was body-boarding off the coast of Cape Town<br \/>\non Thursday, South Africa&#8217;s National Sea Rescue Institute said.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no other bite marks or lacerations on the<br \/>\ndeceased man&#8217;s body &#8211; only the complete amputation of the right<br \/>\nleg and the leg has not been recovered,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The attack occurred on an isolated beach popular with<br \/>\nsurfers. The area, southeast of the city, has since been closed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is the second fatal shark in just over two years in the<br \/>\nwaters round Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Zimbabwean man was eaten in January 2010 by a great white<br \/>\ndescribed by witnesses &#8220;longer than a minibus&#8221;, and in September<br \/>\na swimmer was severely injured but survived an attack in the<br \/>\nFish Hoek area of False Bay.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Numerous sharks are drawn to the area to feed on the large<br \/>\nnumber of seals populating Seal Island, a rocky outcrop in the<br \/>\nmiddle of False Bay.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The City of Cape Town has proposed setting up a shark<br \/>\nexclusion net, similar to that used in Hong Kong, to ensure the<br \/>\nsafety of bathers and surfers along the popular strip of beach.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It also employs &#8220;shark spotters&#8221; to warn bathers about<br \/>\nsharks in the area.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz and Wendell Roelf; Editing by Ed<br \/>\nCropley)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, April 19 (Reuters) &#8211; A man in his 20s was killed by a great white shark about 5 metres (16 feet) long that bit off his leg when he was body-boarding off the coast of Cape Town on Thursday, South Africa&#8217;s National Sea Rescue Institute said. &#8220;There are no other bite marks or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}