A surfer suffered horror facial injuries in a brutal shark attack while another fought off a killer beast during two separate attacks in just 24 hours on the same beach.
Beachgoers in Florida, United States, watched on in horror after the double shark attacks unfolded right in front of their eyes.
Bill Eveland was left with 25 stitches following his encounter with a huge beast coming off the back of a feeding frenzy, while another unnamed surfer had part of their face bitten by the ocean-going predators.
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Both attacks took place on New Smyrna Beach, with attacks in the area common, and there is a key reason surfers keep getting bitten according to one veteran of the waves.
An unnamed 38-year-old was left with nasty wounds to the face after a shark bit him around 8am in the area where Mr Eveland received nasty gashes just 24 hours before.
Bill had been surfing with friends, who returned to shore after a day in the ocean, but the shark attack victim fancied just one more set, Fox reported.
Speaking of his encounter, Bill said: "When I came up from the wave is when the shark kind of hit a glancing blow to my lower right back, and I knew I'd been hit.
"I glanced to the right and I could see the back end of the shark coming off, like where my board [was] and enter back into the water."
Thankfully, Bill survived his encounter but was left with a bloodied shirt, some nasty gashes to his back and 25 stitches.
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He added: "I pushed my luck a little bit too far. I probably shouldn't have paddled out. I should've paddled in after that last wave. And now I learned from that, you know, chalk it up to a learning experience and a cool story."
Not as cool was the encounter between a surfer and shark just a day later, which left an unnamed man in hospital.
Veteran surfer Ron Robinson, who arrived at the scene of the attack and saw the man taken away in an ambulance, claimed surfers were making the same mistakes in the run-up to being attacked, the New York Post reported.
Mr Robinson said: "Nine out of 10 times it’s because they’ll fall in the shallow water, and they’ll spook the shark, and it’s a reaction bite."
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