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Oak Ridge teenager bitten by shark on North Carolina Coast

Officials say a shark apparently bit the teenager about 25 feet offshore while he was jumping over waves at a sandbar near Cape Hatteras.

Credit: AP Photo/Joshua Corsa, File

This 2003, file photo, shows the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and the village of Buxton, N.C. Hurricane Florence has become a reminder of how vulnerable North Carolina's coast is. Experts said Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, that the storm could be the state's most destructive on record.

A shark bit a 16-year-old boy from Oak Ridge off the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Thursday, according to Nationanl Park Services.

Officials said he was jumping over waves on a sandbar about 25 feet offshore.

Cape Hatteras officials said the apparent bite happened near Ramp 25, an off-road vehicle ramp south of the village of Salvo. A Seashore Law Enforcement Ranger drove the boy to the hospital in Nags Head where he was treated and released.

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