Surfer, 61, mauled by shark as swimmers banned from water amid fears beast with strike again

A SURFER was horrifically mauled by a shark successful a deadly onslaught disconnected the seashore of Maui successful Hawaii.

The 61-year-old man, identified arsenic Kenji was surfing disconnected Waiehu Beach Park Friday greeting erstwhile a shark spot him.

His close limb was wholly severed conscionable beneath the knee, Maui County said successful a quality release.

Police officers who arrived astatine the country archetypal tried to power the bleeding with tourniquets.

Kenji, a section nonmigratory of the country who regularly visited the formation for surfing, said helium did not spot the shark attack portion helium was being treated.

He was past taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center successful captious condition.

David Basques who witnessed the fearfulness incidental told Hawaii quality Now: "I heard this outcry and I looked, and each of a abrupt I conscionable [saw] him splash, and I don't cognize what was happening.

"He swam himself backmost possibly much than fractional the mode and past I [saw] idiosyncratic leap successful and they went [to] bring him inside."

Authorities were forced to adjacent the formation parkland aft the deadly onslaught full radical were warned to enactment retired of the h2o successful the area.

Maui occurrence and water information officials were seen patrolling the waters utilizing rescue watercraft and a drone.

State officials provided shark informing signs and helped with cordoning disconnected the area.

There were nary details provided connected what benignant of shark was involved.
In June, well-known surfer Tamayo Perry was killed successful a shark onslaught portion surfing disconnected Oahu's North Shore.

It comes aft a US tourer was eaten up by a shark aft she was swept distant by beardown currents during a imagination diving vacation successful Indonesia.

The assemblage of the 68-year-old American Colleen Monfore from South Dakota, was recovered wrong the tummy of a shark by horrified fishermen.

The pistillate was connected a diving vessel travel with six friends astir the Pulau Reong island when calamity struck connected September 26.

She was dragged distant by the beardown currents with her hopeless group, and the usher was incapable to propulsion her backmost to the boat.

Rescue teams searched for 8 days earlier yet giving up connected October 3 owed to the unsafe conditions astatine oversea and the debased accidental of uncovering the tourist.

Tragically, a fisherman successful the neighbouring state of East Timor recovered quality remains successful the belly of a shark.

Meanwhile, fearfulness footage caught the terrifying infinitesimal a diver came face-to-face with a large achromatic shark that kept circling astir him for an agonising 5 minutes.

Tim Ryan shared the nail-biting footage of his brushwood with the immense 13ft beast portion his mate was wrong a cave looking for crayfish.

It comes arsenic a clump of vengeful locals tracked down and battered a mega-shark aft it mauled a tourist.

Cruel shark hunters dealt respective blows to the beast's caput aft the tourer was near with gaping wounds to his torso and close limb successful a savage attack.

The 38-year-old was rushed to infirmary for exigency attraction portion the authorities closed the formation successful the edifice municipality of Tela successful Honduras, Central America.

Following the attack, respective locals past went retired to oversea looking for the suspected predator.

In the footage, the hunters are seen dangling bait successful the h2o earlier hooking what they judge is the shark liable for the mauling.

They past cruelly reel the carnal alongside their vessel earlier unleashing a horrific onslaught connected the shark.

Footage shows a cruel section repeatedly whacking the shark connected the caput arsenic it's hooked and helpless.

The predator struggles to aquatics distant portion the antheral keeps it next to the vessel and continues bludgeoning its head.

It’s unclear if the fishermen killed the shark.