By the time a lifeguard got to him, it was too late. Stephen Schafer was kitesurfing 500 yards off an unguarded part of Stuart Beach, in Martin County, Fla., last February when he was attacked by a swarm of sharks. “He got bit after he presumably wiped out, a very serious bite,†says George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Schafer was rushed to a local hospital, where he died of his wounds  … More
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