Cape Cod Man Bitten By Shark Lives to Tell Tale

A Wareham man who was seriously injured in a North Carolina shark attack earlier this month is out of the hospital.

Andrew Costello, 67, is a former editor-in-chief of the Boston Herald.

He was swimming in the Ocracoke Island area of the Outer Banks when a 7-foot grey shark chomped all over his body and pulled him underwater, according to Hyde County Emergency Services. The shark bit him on the rib cage, hip, leg, and hands. He fought off the attack and made it back to shore, officials said. He was flown by a medical helicopter to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, where he was listed in fair condition.

The photo above shows Costello being carried off the beach.

This week, he returned to his Wareham home.

“I am doing OK,” Costello told reporters. “I am very happy to be home.”

It was at least the seventh shark attack in North Carolina this summer.

Last month, a shark bit off the arms of two teenagers in another series of shark attacks in North Carolina.

Also last month, a great white shark was spotted off the cost of Orleans in Cape Cod. Researchers captured these photos:

Great white sharks have a well-documented summertime presence in Cape Cod waters—especially last year.

In September on the Plymouth coast, a great white shark chomped a kayak with two women inside. They were not hurt.

A few weeks earlier, a Duxbury beach was evacuated after a State Police helicopter captured a photo of this great white:

Credit: Duxbury Fire Department

Cape Cod researchers last year launched a submarine robot to track a great white—theshark then stalked the robot and attacked it several times, “Jaws”-style:

Top photo credit: WHDH