| Shark attack kills kiteboarder in Stuart Beach |
| Thursday, 04 February 2010 11:26 |
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A 38-year-old kiteboarder has died after being attacked by several sharks off the coast of Florida, near Stuart Beach. Stephen Howard Schafer was kitesurfing in an unguarded water zone. A lifeguard even tried to rescue the kiteboarder, but he was severely wounded and unconscious and died in the local hospital. Authorities have closed a few beaches as they have been spotting hundreds of dangerous sharks by the Florida coast, in the past weeks. Schafer was an experienced kiteboarder. The last shark-bite fatality in Florida has occurred in 2005. |












