50-year-old Steven Robles was doing his routine
two-mile routine swim at the Manhattan Beach, California. This is something
that the real estate broker form Lomita has been doing every weekend with more
than a dozen of his friends. He has been enjoying this physical activity for
the longest time. This weekend though he got a surprise that he was not
expecting at all.
Shark Attack
Last weekend, Robles was doing his routine swim
with his friends when a shark suddenly appeared and attacked him. He recalled
what happened and couldn’t believe that he survived. Robles claimed that the
shark came up from the bottom of the water, looked at him, and attacked him
right then and there. The sharked lunged at and locked into his chest.
Instinctively he grabbed the shark’s nose and tried to pry the great white
shark’s mouth open. He was able to escape, so as the shark.
Rare and Uncommon Attacks
According to the International Shark Attack File’s
(ISAF) report released last February 19, 2014, shark attacks are quite a rare
occurrence in the United States. In fact, over the past 14 years, the number of
people attacked by these predators hovered from 30-50 cases a year. Of the
number of attacks recorded, only one to three victims died while tens got
injured. In California, only one, non-fatal shark attack was recorded last
2013. However, shark attacks are one of the most dangerous kinds of animal
attacks killing thousands of people all over the world annually.
