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  • April 2008
    • Shark Kills Man; SoCal Beaches Closed

      Shark Kills Man; SoCal Beaches Closed

      (Newser) - Beaches north of San Diego were closed today after a man was fatally injured by a shark, the Union-Tribune reports. While witnesses could identify “the culprit” only as a “big gray shark,” an expert contacted by the Los Angeles Times said, “This almost certainly was a great white shark.” Attacks in the area are “unheard of.” More »

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      San Diego   ocean   beach   Pacific Ocean   fatalities   shark attack   San Onofre State Beach   great white shark   Ocean Beach

  • October 2007
    • 7 College Students Die in North Carolina Fire

      7 College Students Die in North Carolina Fire

      (Newser) - Seven college students perished in an Ocean Beach, NC, house fire this morning, six of them from the University of Southern Carolina, one from Clemson University. There were 13 college students in the house when the fire broke out. Six were hospitalized, including one who jumped from the house, which was raised on stilts, into a waterway, according to Debbie Smith, the mayor of Ocean Isle Beach.  More »

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      fires   Ocean Beach

  • July 2007
    • Giant Squid Storms Australia

      Giant Squid Storms Australia

      (Newser) - A giant squid that weighs 550 pounds and measures 26 feet from the tip of its body to the end of its fearsome tentacles washed up on an Australian beach today. The rarely spotted sea creature is the largest specimen encountered since February, when fishermen in New Zealand netted a 33-foot catch that weighed 1,100 pounds. More »

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      Australia   New Zealand   Tasmania   giant squid   Ocean Beach   squid

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