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A third shark bite off Maui in less than a month leaves a 30-year-old man with severe injuries to one of his legs. <\/p>\n
It happened about 500 yards off shore of the Waieha Golf Course just before 8:30 Sunday morning. <\/p>\n
The man, and his dive partner were participating in the 2012 Roi Roundup dive tournament, when he felt a tug at his leg, and saw what he believed to be a 15-foot tiger shark. <\/p>\n
After the initial cuts to his right ankle, the shark circled back, but the diver kept him away with his spear gun. <\/p>\n
The shark also approached the diver's partner, before swimming away. A golf course employee arrived an hour after the victim was pulled to safety at the seventh hole. <\/p>\n
Sunday's incident is the third in the last month. The most recent, last Saturday at Makena Landing, on the southern shore involved a 51-year-old woman, visiting Maui from Northern California. <\/p>\n
In that attack, the woman punched the shark, suffering cuts to her hand. <\/p>\n
And on Oct. 18, a tiger shark knocked a stand-up paddler off his board at Kanaha Beach. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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