This truly is one of the most magical places in the world.
Locals are very passionate about their privacy, their independence, their
uniqueness. Many of them are hardcore.
They live off the land and they embrace nature and the environment.
When you're out on the on the outer cape, you're in the middle of the ocean.
We need the ocean.
It's our escape.
It's our natural antidepressive.
It's what keeps us going.
It's part of who we are.
Cape Cod has the best wave in the summer.
It looked at the sand dunes and the scenery.
That was my vision of what a beautiful, perfect beach was in my head.
And that's why I fell in love with Wellesley.
That's why we ended up moving here.
It was a laid back atmosphere.
Everybody was just together and just having a good.
Didn't have to worry about anything.
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That, bro. Look. That one. That one row.
Oh, my.
It was the day that anyone that spends a lot of time in the outer cape is kind of the day
we live for. It was close to 80 degrees, sunny, great fun waves.
If you wanted to ride a longboard sup boogie board surf, it was pretty utopic.
It was one of those days.
I was at Newcomb Hollow.
I watched Arthur and Isaac run from the parking lot past us to look at the waves, and
they were so excited because they saw how good the waves were.
And I remember one of them said to the other, It's even better than yesterday.
And they were right.
It was a great day for waves.
Arthur was down for the weekend with his girlfriend's brother, who he was very close
with, Isaac, who was 16 years old at the time.
I was teaching Isaac to surf and they were standing in the water and the water was like.
Like here.
Arthur was doing a lot of the things that I tell my kids to do, which is stay close to
shore, stay with a buddy, don't swim where the seals are, which, you know, is almost
impossible here on the Cape.
We have so many seals that are everywhere.
And while, you know, you don't want to be boogie boarding or surfing next to a big haul
out of seals, I know what scent trail those seals are laying and I know what can be
behind those seals.
My wife was counseling my daughter not to go surfing that day because she was suiting up
to go surfing right when Arthur Medici was in the water riding his waves.
And and my wife got on the phone even with a bad reception there and told her, absolutely
not, you're not going to go.
And my daughter's response was, you know, I'm not alone.
There's other people in the water.
It's a perfect day.
It's clear it's sunny, The water is clear.
It's a lower tide and it's middle of the day.
So I'm following all the rules that are up on that big sign that say don't surf early
morning or late evening or when the water is murky or when it's cloudy, everything is is
safe. And as soon as she said that, she heard the screams and then she says, mom,
someone just got bit.
That morning, I was actually putting the boards on the roof and that's when I was told
that there had been an attack.
A gentleman who was standing on top of the dunes, said there was a lot.
Of thrashing in the water.
Everybody get up on the berm.
Everybody get up on the beach.
And that's typically what you'd see when a seal is being attacked by a shark.
You know, there's a lot of thrashing of that tail fin.
As I'm about to go down the dune, I see this cluster on the beach.
And I was like, Oh my God, Like, this is the real deal.
So I dropped my board really, really quickly and my natural reaction was just to run down
there and see if I could help in any way.
What happened to this poor kid?
It was indescribable, actually, to see something like that.
He was bitten on his leg, both legs.
But one was worse than the other.
I just saw him getting dragged under the water and then him appearing again with blood
in the water. I got the boogie board strap.
His boogie board strap and tried to tie it around his leg to stop the bleeding.
Made a tourniquet out.
How do we get this kid back up?
How do we get him have a pulse?
How do we make this okay?
And it was all hands on deck.
They worked hard to resuscitate him.
But he couldn't because the shark bites on the back of his knee, which was the artery,
the femoral artery.
You could see that in indents of the teeth in his thighs.
There was no blood coming out.
It was literally just a lifeless body with just holes.
It's gone. The whole blood was.
I have heard from various people, including scientists, that, yes, he bled out in the
water. He was dead on the beach.
Isaac said that Arthur was looking at him and he.
You just read.
That's right, he said.
I think he would just say something.
And then he did this.
And besides by.
It was very apparent that this was a fatal attack.
And the pulse that was going through the community was it was very heavy.
I remember that. I was crying from Quincy to Cape Cod.
We got so much traffic on the way there.
Everything was taking too long and I was like, I was crazy.
I was crazy.
The closest trauma center is Hyannis on Route six with lights and siren is a very long time
in excess of an hour.
That's a lifetime when it comes to injuries like that.
I just ran inside of the hospital.
I want to see him so bad.
When they got there, he was still warm.
When they see him. He was sleeping and they said, Wake up.
Wake up. This is not true.
Everything was normal.
He was looking like he was sleeping.
I thought I was dreaming.
This wasn't real, but was.
Was real. I lost the.