Steve Bruemmer was swimming off Lovers Point Beach near Monterey, California, on June 22 when he was attacked. He said he was swimming “on a beautiful day” with no “wind” and was “just gliding through the water looking at the meadows and the sea stars”, unaware of what was about to happen. “I was about 150 yards from making it close to the beach when I just popped!” he remembered. “I don’t even know exactly what happened, but it turns out that I was viciously bitten by a shark right on my thighs and stomach and grabbed me and pulled me and then put me in the water.” He added: “Then of course he spat at me, I’m not a seal, he’s looking for seals, we’re not their food. “It spat at me and it was looking right next to me and I thought it might bite me again so I pushed it with my hand and kicked it with my foot and it went away. “I surfaced and started screaming for help and that’s when all my luck changed, really unlucky I got bitten by the shark, they don’t want people.” He thanked two rowers, one a nurse and the other a police officer, who pulled over and the officer called 911. He said a surfer brought another surfboard and the three of them loaded him onto it and pulled him onto the beach. “Heroes. How do you get into the bloody water with maybe a shark circling below you to save a stranger?” Mr Bruemmer was taken to hospital where doctors repaired his thighs so he could walk again. Image: Mr Bruemmer was swimming at Lovers Point Beach near Monterey, California, when he was attacked. Photo: KSBW Drone patrol It comes as authorities deployed a drone to monitor the waters around a popular beach on Long Island, New York, after three people were injured by shark bites this month. The drones will be used to search for sharks offshore, Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Bellone said. The large drone used can accommodate a projector and speaker to broadcast messages, and the department uses smaller drones that provide thermal imaging and have high-definition video.
