Kneeboard Surfing USA Community Forum

There were two shark attacks near Ixtapa yesterday. The surfer reported as Bruce "Greems" is none other than Bruce Grimes of Texas-Florida-Mexico. Bruce has damage to one hand but did not lose his thumb as reported in the news release. He was treated at the Navy Hospital in Ziwat.

Bruce owns and shapes for Prime Surfboards and had recently moved to Ixtapa where he has been shaping for several years. Bruce is also an artist and has done graphics for several surf movies. We are praying that Bruce's hand is in good shape and that he returns to work and the water soon.

bruce is the man! hope he gets better quick.

Hope Bruce has a speedy recovery. That's been the third shark attack in a month in the Pacific Ocean. Weird.
____________________________________________________________
charter member of the original hospitals/horseshoe crew.

Don't have an update yet but sure there is a story to tell. There may be a one eyed shark swimming around. Bruce's website:
http://www.thesurfgroup.com/

Mexico Navy hunts for sharks after attacks
Mon May 26, 2008 9:41pm BST Email | Print | Share| Single Page| Recommend (0) [-] Text [+] By Noel Randewich

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican Navy searched for sharks in the ocean near Pacific surfing beaches on Monday, after two bathers were killed and another maimed in a rare spate of shark attacks.

Three boats and a helicopter patrolled the sea while Navy and rescue officials scanned the horizon with binoculars from popular beaches around the southwestern Mexican resort of Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo. They warned surfers not to go far out.

"We've been monitoring the beaches; we've done reconnaissance flights," Rear Adm. Arturo Bernal said, adding that no big shark had been detected yet in the area.

Surfer Bruce Grimes from Texas was bitten on the arm on Saturday off nearby Playa Linda beach, making him the third target of a shark attack in the area in a month.

Two attacks in April and May killed a Mexican and an American -- the first shark deaths off Mexico's Pacific coast in 30 years, according to official records.

Grimes, 49, said he paddled madly toward shore on his board after feeling the unmistakable sandy skin of a shark glide across the bottom of his feet as he straddled his surfboard.

"Then it bumped me really hard. I thought, 'That's definitely a big shark.' I took about three more strokes and he grabbed my arm," said Grimes, who pulled himself free and made it to the beach. He managed to drive himself to a hospital, where he received 100 stitches.

On Friday, Mexican surfer Osvaldo Mata, 21, died after a 6-foot-long (2-m-long) shark seized him, bit off one of his hands and chomped on his thigh. That followed the death in late April of a 24-year-old American who was mauled while surfing nearby. Continued...