Dashel Pierson

1 week ago | yardbarker.com | Dashel Pierson

Last week, a sunny beach day turned into a nightmare situation in Florida, when a 9-year-old girl was attacked by a shark in shallow waters. The bite nearly severed her hand entirely. Construction crew workers jumped in the water to help, before emergency crews arrived to save her life.  Leah Lendel, the young victim, was snorkeling at Boca Grande beach when the attack happened. She was in the water with her mother, father, and siblings.

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Dashel Pierson

In the realm of aerials, surfers are woefully behind when compared to other boardsport counterparts like snowboarding and skateboarding. Flipping and spinning the board (à la skateboarding) is something rarely seen on surf craft; and rotations beyond 540 degrees (an extremely common practice in the snow) has barely been tapped in the water…at least, for now. But someone continually pushing the boundaries of aerial surfing is San Diego’s Jacob “Zeke” Szekely.

1 week ago | surfer.com | Dashel Pierson

Leah Lendel was attacked by an estimated 8-foot bull shark, nearly losing her hand in the process, while snorkeling in Boca Grande, Florida. Last week, a sunny beach day turned into a nightmare situation in Florida, when a 9-year-old girl was attacked by a shark in shallow waters. The bite nearly severed her hand entirely. Construction crew workers jumped in the water to help, before emergency crews arrived to save her life.

1 week ago | surfer.com | Dashel Pierson

Jacob “Zeke” Szekely has done it again with an obscure, difficult aerial maneuver…and this time in the actual ocean. In the realm of aerials, surfers are woefully behind when compared to other boardsport counterparts like snowboarding and skateboarding. Flipping and spinning the board (à la skateboarding) is something rarely seen on surf craft; and rotations beyond 540 degrees (an extremely common practice in the snow) has barely been tapped in the water…at least, for now.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Dashel Pierson

Generate Key TakeawaysSharks make for good TV. Look at Shark Week, the long-running summertime spectacle on Discovery Channel, which has reigned supreme in the cultural zeitgeist, becoming a household phenomenon. The programming even made for a memorable gag in the endlessly quotable 2008 film Step Brothers. Now, Netflix appears to be getting the hint.