THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 3, 1994 TAG: 9406030690
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: D4 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY PAUL SOUTH, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: 940603 LENGTH: COROLLA
What she got was a shark.
{REST} ``She came back from her walk and was real excited,'' said her husband, Ray, a retired insurance executive.
The sand shark Karen Dameron filmed before racing home to tell her husband was estimated at 6 feet. It apparently washed ashore earlier in the day.
``I saw it, and circled it a couple of times to make sure it was dead,'' Dameron said. ``Once I was sure of that, I walked up to it.''
She said the shark appeared to have been injured in a net offshore and died before washing up on the beach. It was the first time the Damerons had encountered a shark in the Outer Banks.
``We've been coming here regularly since 1985,'' said Karen Dameron, a retired teacher from Fredericksburg. ``This is the first time anything like this has happened.''
Beach patrol personnel declined to comment on the shark sighting, but one lifeguard who would not give his name said shark sightings in the area are extremely rare.
The shark reportedly was buried in the sand near where it was found. by CNB