{"id":85607,"date":"2025-08-21T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85607\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:42:08","slug":"florida-man-bitten-while-taking-photo-with-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85607\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man bitten while taking photo with shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.abcotvs.net\/abcotv\/static\/common\/origins\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, August 20, 2025 10:24PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"'We're in his territory': Man bitten while taking photo with shark\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Shawn Meuse was posing with a lemon shark off the Florida coast when the 6-foot marine fish bit his leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">One man was hospitalized after taking a photo with a 6-foot lemon shark off the Florida coast in Cayo Costa State Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Two men caught the predator while on a shark-fishing trip and say they were preparing to release it back into the water &#8212; when the shark bit one of the men in the leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Shawn Meuse had to be airlifted to a local hospital and get surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Meuse is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He spoke to the ABC station in Florida where he said that even with this near-death experience, it would not deter him from getting back to hunting predators in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, August 20, 2025 10:24PM Shawn Meuse was posing with a lemon shark off the Florida coast when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64112,64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-85607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-64112","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}