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Police in inflatable rubber boats shoot at a shark off Muriwai Beach near Auckland, New Zealand, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, as they attempt to retrieve a body following a fatal shark attack. Police said a man was found dead in the water after being "bitten by a large shark." (AP Photo/Ross Land)

Giant shark kills swimmer at popular beach as hundreds watch

Last updated Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 10:27am

AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- A shark possibly 14 feet long killed a swimmer near a popular New Zealand beach on Wednesday, then disappeared after police attempting to save the man fired gunshots at the enormous predator.

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Vandenberg Air Force Base security forces block the entrance to Surf Beach at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. while the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department conducts its investigation of a shark attack that killed a 38-year-old California surfer. Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/The Santa Maria Times, Leah Thompson)

Surfer killed in shark attack

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 5:26pm

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A California surfer was killed Tuesday by a shark off a beach at coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base, authorities said.

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Surfer killed by shark off French island

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, July 23, 2012 - 4:46pm

PARIS — Authorities say a shark killed a 22-year-old surfer in the Indian Ocean waters off France’s Reunion Island.

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Florida leads US in shark attacks

Gary Taylor The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 6:55pm

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Even though it had fewer shark bites reported in 2011 than any year since 2004, Volusia County, Fla., continues to be saddled with the nickname of shark-bite capital of the world.

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Spectators watch some big waves in Newport Beach, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. High tide and a winter storm off New Zealand are combining to bring high waves to the Southern California coast. The National Weather Service said waves of 8 feet to 11 feet or more could hit beaches from San Luis Obispo to San Diego counties through the afternoon and peak Thursday night or early Friday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Gawkers gather in San Diego to catch glimpse of sharks

Tony Barboza, Tony Perry Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, September 2, 2011 - 11:39am

SAN DIEGO -- Nothing injects adrenaline into a languid summer day on the beach like heavy surf and a few dorsal fins.

After three shark sightings in the last week, the bluffs and coves teemed with lifeguards, surfers, sunbathers, tourists, gawkers and reporters, all scanning the water for that little sloping gray triangle that can send shudders up and down the coast if humans catch just a fleeting glimpse of it.

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Six-year-old girl survives shark attack

Jerry Allegood News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

Last updated Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 8:41am

GREENVILLE, N.C. -- Sitting in a wheelchair with a colorful knee-to-toe bandage, 6-year-old Lucy Mangum expressed no fear or anger toward the shark that mangled her right leg while she was swimming at Ocracoke, on the North Carolina Outer Banks, last week.

"He didn't mean to do it," she said. "I tried to swim away."

But she also told her parents at one point, "I should have kicked him in the nose."

Lucy and her parents, Jordan and Craig Mangum of Durham, N.C., described the attack during a news conference at the East Carolina Heart Institute at Pitt Memorial Hospital in Greenville, N.C., where the girl has been treated.

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