DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Two men were bitten by sharks Friday on the east coast of Florida, where surfers took advantage of waters roiled by Hurricane Earl, a beach guard said.
Capt. Scott Petersohn of the Volusia County Beach Patrol told the Orlando Sentinel the men were surfers -- one bitten on a thigh and the other on one of his hands.
One of the men, 24, told the beach patrol he had been paddling through a large school of smaller fish when he was bitten.
Petersohn said surfers have reported seeing large numbers of sharks but that has not kept them out of the water.
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