Surfer Attacked By 8-Foot Tiger Shark, Loses Foot

A 58-year-old Hawaiian surfer’s foot was bitten off throughout a shark assault off the coast of Honolulu … and was possible saved by quick-thinking witnesses who used their surfboard leashes as a tourniquet, limiting blood loss.

Mike Morita, who’s been shredding waves for 40 years, was attacked by a roughly 8-foot tiger shark in Kewalo Basin on Sunday round 7 AM, officers advised KHON.

Fellow surfers acted shortly to tie off the injured limb, and Morita was rushed to a neighborhood hospital for remedy. Officers say the short pondering of the opposite surfers was most likely the distinction between life and loss of life for Mike.

Regardless of going by means of the extremely traumatic incident, the surfer’s household says Mike’s in good spirits, releasing a press release thanking everybody who helped.

“He has a protracted and tough highway forward of him. My dad is a fighter and though he’s going through a setback now, you all know that gained’t cease him,” Morita’s son advised a neighborhood information outlet.

The highway to restoration has already begun for MM, who underwent surgical procedure when he arrived on the hospital on Sunday. He’s scheduled to have a second surgical procedure later this week.

Though shark sightings are frequent, assaults aren’t. The truth is, earlier than Sunday’s incident, there hadn’t been a reported assault in that space in over 2 a long time, in response to the Hawaii Dept. of Land and Pure Assets.

Regardless of the rarity of the assault, lifeguards have been posted up on the seashore on Monday, telling swimmers they could not go within the water.