{"id":2685,"date":"2005-09-24T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2017-12-14T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T23:04:33","slug":"joseph-kittinger-jr-award-winner-brad-satchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/24\/joseph-kittinger-jr-award-winner-brad-satchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Kittinger, Jr., Award Winner Brad Satchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We at MfBJN hereby confer the <a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2004\/03\/announcing-kittinger-award-andrew.html\" target=\"_new\">Joseph Kittinger, Jr., Award<\/a> upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/09\/24\/australia.shark.reut\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">Brad Satchell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Australian surfer survived a shark attack by repeatedly punching a small shark he first thought was a seal, the second incident of its kind this month, local radio reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Satchell, 44, was surfing about 120 meters (390 feet) offshore at the popular Scarborough beach in Perth, capital of Western Australia state, on Friday when he was attacked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I actually had a smile on my face when I first saw the thing because I thought it was a seal,&#8221; Satchell told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.<\/p>\n<p>He said he turned his surfboard on its side to use as a shield when the shark, which he said may may have been a bronze whaler more than a meter in length, began to attack him. He was unhurt and paddled to safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I lifted my body out of the water and I just got my fists and I remember what I&#8217;d read in the paper. I just started punching and I connected with its head,&#8221; Satchell said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gall as big as church bells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We at MfBJN hereby confer the Joseph Kittinger, Jr., Award upon Brad Satchell: An Australian surfer survived a shark attack by repeatedly punching a small shark he first thought was a seal, the second incident of its kind this month, local radio reported on Saturday. Brad Satchell, 44, was surfing about 120 meters (390 feet) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kittinger-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18629,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/18629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}