Every day, Cole Taschman heads out to Bathtub Beach in Stuart, Florida. The quiet reef on the Atlantic Coast got its name ...

Cole Taschman, 28, had been out on the water with two friends when he felt the teeth of the shark latched onto his foot ...

Cole Taschman was bitten by a bull or tiger shark at Bathtub Beach on the east coast of Florida last week. It's his second ...

Waves splashing over the reef at Bathtub Reef Beach at sunrise on Hutchinson Island, Florida. (Photo credit: Diana Robinson Photography/Getty Images) While the odds of being bitten by a shark are ...

Taschman was 16 years old in 2013 when a blacktip reef shark bit his hand while surfing at the same beach. “Same beach, same ...

This wasn't Cole Taschman's first brush with a shark. Twelve years prior, he had been bitten by a smaller shark while surfing ...

Florida, when a roughly 5-foot-long blacktip reef shark clamped onto his right hand. Taschman managed to fend off the shark by striking its head with his surfboard. He then used his T-shirt as a ...

In 2013, a blacktip reef shark bit ... with about six shark bite patients each year. For reference, Florida reported 16 unprovoked shark attacks in 2023, according to the Florida Museum.

The chances of being bit by a shark are low, with the probability sitting at 1 in 3.7 million chances, according to the ...