SoCal Teen Killed by Shark

(Santa Barbara, California) Last Friday, 19-year-old Lucas McKaine Ransom was fatally bitten by a shark while bodyboarding in the surf northwest of Santa Barbara.

The shark, described as 14 to 20 feet long, bit Ransom's left leg, inflicting what deputies said was "a massive wound."

Paramedics pronounced him dead on the beach.

The below photo from the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department tells much of the story.


Lucas Ransom's board with a foot-wide bite wedge and one flipper are displayed. Presumably, the other flipper is still attached to the leg bitten by the shark.