Beaches up and down Monterey County were closed to surfers Sunday, one day after a Monterey man was attacked by a shark at Marina State Beach.
Warning signs tell surfers that they should stay out of the water through next weekend, according to the Monterey Herald.
The surfer, 27-year-old Eric Tarantino, was surfing with friends early Saturday morning when he was bit in the arm and on the neck.
He called out to friends to both warn them of the shark and get their help because he was injured.
"I think he's gonna be OK. You know, when we got him to the beach he was coherent. And we'd stopped the bleeding immediately," his friend Skip Landos said.
Tarantino said the shark attacked him suddenly while he was paddling on his surfboard.
San Jose surgeons operated on Tarantino for two hours Saturday to repair injuries to the muscles in his neck.
Dr. Michael Gynn said he was lucky, because the shark missed all major vessels on his neck. Gynn said he is expected to make a full recover, adding he awake and alert by Saturday night.
The last shark attack was four years ago in the same area.
State beach officials said the sharks move quickly, adding the shark that bit Tarantino could be in Santa Cruz or Half Moon Bay by now.
Tarantino's damaged surfboard was seen in the back of a state park ranger's patrol car in the beach parking lot.
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