Serene southern vacation town reports 2nd shark attack of summer amid heavy tourist traffic

South Carolina officials connected Sunday reported the 2nd shark wound astatine Hilton Head, a fashionable confederate formation town, successful conscionable 1 week.

Hilton Head Island (HHI) Fire Rescue responded to a aesculapian exigency astatine Coligny Beach Park connected Sunday astir noon and located the unfortunate with lacerations to the limb accordant with a shark bite, an HHI occurrence rescue spokesperson said successful a property release.

Fire and Rescue officials provided contiguous on-scene attraction for the victim, who was past transported to a section infirmary for further treatment.

It is the 2nd shark wound incidental reported successful HHI since June 17, erstwhile different unfortunate sustained lacerations to the limb accordant with a shark bite, a spokesperson told Fox News Digital past week.

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Hilton Head, South Carolina, wherever officials person reported 2 evident shark attacks implicit conscionable 1 week. (iStock)

"Beaches and oceans are dynamic earthy environments," HHI communications manager Heather Woolwine said successful a Monday connection to Fox News Digital. "Crowd conditions, currents, waves, chaotic animals, and different h2o and formation conditions tin rapidly change. Our contractor for formation operations and lifeguard services, Shore Beach Service, volition proceed to show wildlife enactment successful real-time arsenic champion they can."

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Hilton Head Island (HHI) Fire Rescue responded to a aesculapian exigency astatine Coligny Beach Park connected Sunday astir noon and located the unfortunate with lacerations to the limb accordant with a shark bite, a spokesperson said. (iStock)

When ample schools of food are contiguous oregon if determination is an identified shark successful the h2o adjacent radical swimming, "the SBS squad goes rapidly into enactment to get radical retired of the water," Woolwine said.

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Life Guards show the surf astatine Coligny Beach connected Hilton Head Island. (Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News via USA Today)

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Additionally, officials rise flags on Hilton Head to counsel beachgoers of definite conditions. Purple flags bespeak the beingness of unsafe marine life, specified arsenic sharks, stingrays and jellyfish. Red flags bespeak unsmooth conditions, specified arsenic riptides. Yellow flags bespeak mean to airy conditions.

The summertime months successful Hilton Head are the astir fashionable for visitors. HHI was ranked No. 1 among South Carolina's champion beaches connected U.S. News and World Report's Best Vacation Rankings, published successful 2024.