By Mikhaila Crowie
3 March 2009
The National Sea Rescue Institute has been called out to a shark attack in Hout Bay yesterday afternoon.
A fishing boat, called South West Sea Hawke was 30 miles west of Cape Point when they caught a shark.
It was while the 16 crew members released the shark, when the shark attacked the skipper.
NSRI spokesperson, Brad Geyser said the victim, Gabriel Fernadez, has a 6cm tear in his right arm and two of his right hand fingers are lacerated.
Geyser said he was called out to the incident at 1:30 pm yesterday afternoon.
“We launched our rescue boats MTU Nadine Gordimer, and we met them about 30 miles west of Slangkop.”
He said the NSRI transferred the injured skipper and put a new skipper on board so that the boat could proceed safely to Cape Town.
The victim was rushed to hospital via ambulance yesterday afternoon.
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I would be critical of the term "attacked" - the shark out of water was just struggling and the captain just got too close!!
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