Teen surfer loses arm in shark attack

THE water was clear and there was no indication of danger when a 13-year-old surfing star went out on the waves with her best friend and her friend’s father.

But while Bethany Hamilton was lying on her board off Kauai’s North Shore, a shark bit once and then disappeared, taking off her left arm just below the shoulder.

“Nobody saw it happen. She just yelled, ‘a shark bit me’,” said her father, Tom Hamilton. Bethany Hamilton, who remained in a stable condition after the attack Friday morning, talked of the attack Saturday.