{"id":593526,"date":"2026-08-14T23:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/593526\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:50:14","slug":"i-dont-think-i-would-have-made-it-shark-attack-victim-praises-rescue-services-homepage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/593526\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I don\u2019t think I would have made it&#8217;: Shark attack victim praises rescue services &#8211; Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A man who was injured after he was bitten by a blue shark off the Waterford coast is recovering after undergoing surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sebastian Achim said he was tagging sharks for conservation purposes on board a small vessel about 32km south of Ardmore on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He suffered a deep bite to his leg after he landed a shark and it was being tagged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Achim said he lost a significant amount of blood and had to be airlifted to Cork University Hospital, where he successfully underwent surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I passed out for an hour and a bit. I&#8217;m thankful to the emergency services,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was particularly thankful to the helicopter crew who got him quickly to hospital. &#8220;That was the biggest save because I don&#8217;t think I would have made it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I know this sounds bad, but I want people to understand it was just an accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was injured after he was bitten by a blue shark off the Waterford coast is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-593526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}