On the same day as the Nantucket incident, a 40-year-old surfer named Matthew Bender of Winter Park, Florida, was attacked by a shark in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Benton suffered a 10-inch bite that ...

The Manatee Fire Marshal says the man bitten on the leg by a shark off Anna Maria Island got into the water from a boat. “People were disappointed that we weren’t clearing the beach,” he said.