A man who was bitten by a shark off the coast of Malibu near Deer Creek was transported to Las Robles hospital in Thousand Oaks Saturday afternoon.
The man, a 25 year old kayaker who was fishing a mile off shore with a friend, was stable and able to paddle himself to shore after being aided by a nearby fishing boat, according to Ventura County Fire Captain Ron Oatman. The bite occurred at about 2:40 p.m.Â
“Possibly a 10 foot hammerhead shark came up and they described it like it bit him or bumped him, it wasn’t described like an attack,” Oatman said.
The kayaker, who had a foot dangling in the water along with a fishing line, and suffered lacerations on the foot where the shark attack occurred.
“It came up to his foot and moved on, but it did some severe laceration damage to the foot,” Oatman said.
No beaches were closed due to the bite.Â