Surfer Bitten by Shark Reveals How He Escaped

A surfer has revealed the moment a shark grabbed his foot, leaving him with a bloodied ankle. Lone surfer Oliver Tokic-Bensley, 16, was more than 100 yards from the coast in Middleton, South Australia, when it hit him, knocking him off his board. After the contact, he paddled for shore, but the apex predator’s fin disappeared from view under the waves, 9News Australia reports. He said he was “sitting on my board waiting for a wave to come and something just came and grabbed my foot.” He continued, “I fell into the water with it and then maybe five meters in front of me there was a little fin that popped up, and I just hopped on my board and legged it back to the beach.” “It was pretty frantic,” he said. “There were no waves to catch at the time it got me so I just had to paddle.” “I think the movement of his foot and maybe the murky water, the shark mistimed the hit,” his father, Andrew Bensley, said. “If it was a little bit up he definitely would have lost his foot. Based on the size of the teeth it was a reasonable-sized shark.”

Todd Meadows, a deckhand working on a crabbing vessel featured in the reality show Deadliest Catch died from drowning, hypothermia and “submersion of body in cold water,” according to his death certificate, which was obtained by TMZ. Meadows fell overboard in February while a crew from Discovery was filming for the show. The tragic accident happened aboard the Aluetian [sic.] Lady, a crabbing boat in the notoriously rough Bering Sea, which straddles Alaska’s western coast. The fisherman’s family told TMZ they didn’t want the footage of Meadows falling overboard to air on Deadliest Catch. Meadows was only 25-years-old when he died. His death certificate says he was cremated after his body arrived in Anchorage, the state’s largest city. He leaves behind a wife and three children. Deadliest Catch has been documenting the dangerous jobs of Bering Sea fishing crews since first airing on The Discovery Channel in 2005. In the many seasons since, at least nineteen people featured in the show have lost their lives to various causes, according to ScreenRant. A GoFundMe set up in honor of Meadows has so far raised $56,000.

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Basketball superstar Angel Reese is changing teams before the start of the upcoming WNBA season, sending shockwaves through the sport. The Chicago Sky traded the 23-year-old to the Atlanta Dream in exchange for first-round selections in the 2027 and 2028 league draft. “An Angel’s DREAM,” Reese wrote of the news on X. “ATL WHAT UP?!” Reese leaves Chicago after publicly criticizing her franchise for failing to make the playoffs for two years in a row. Reese said she wouldn’t be “settling for the same s--t we did this year,” later telling the Chicago Tribune that she “might have to move in a different direction and do what’s best for me.” The former LSU legend has strung together an impressive professional career. In her first two years, Reese averaged 14 points and 12.8 rebounds per game. However, she missed the final four games of last season with the Sky after suffering a back injury and missed another half game after being suspended for her comments on the Sky. Both on and off the court, Reese has been a major force in drawing fans to the WNBA, partly for her arch-rivalry with Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever. In college, both women took center stage in the highly charged 2023 national championship game between LSU and Iowa, which Reese’s side won. Reese will begin her next chapter with the Atlanta Dream when the season begins in May.

The Supreme Court paved the way for the dismissal of the conviction against Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon. The longtime adviser to the president has already served a four-month sentence for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the investigation into the attack on January 6. But the Trump administration told the country’s highest court that it was in the “interests of justice” for his conviction to be dismissed. The Supreme Court’s decision overturned an appeals court decision to uphold his conviction. In February, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the Supreme Court to remand the case to the lower court for dismissal. The court’s decision was announced in a brief two-sentence order on Monday that sent the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit “for further consideration in light of the pending motion to dismiss the indictment.” Bannon, a key MAGA architect and right-wing podcaster, was convicted by a jury in July 2022 after he refused to testify before the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6. The Daily Beast reached out to Bannon as well as the Justice Department for comment on the Supreme Court’s order.

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A pilot landed a light aircraft in the middle of a highway after experiencing mid-air engine trouble. The daring maneuver unfolded in front of stunned motorists on Interstate 78 in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, on Saturday morning. “It was an Easter miracle,” said witness Victor Machese. The pilot, a 65-year-old man, was headed from Solberg Airport in New Jersey to Indiana when he became concerned about the engine. ABC7 New York reported that transmissions from the cockpit showed that he was reluctant to go wheels down on the road, but decided to do so because he knew he couldn’t reach the next airport. Police said the Michigan native got the 1995 Commander 114B down safely. Motorists watched in awe and recorded the spectacle on their mobile phones. Machese was full of praise for the pilot. “He landed in two lanes. His wings were literally from almost the center median to the grass on the other side, and like I said, he didn’t look like he was freaking out, he was just looking straight ahead,” he said. The pilot had a 34-year-old passenger on board. No one was injured. The Federal Aviation Administration and state police are investigating.

Authorities in the Bahamas are searching for an American woman reported missing after her husband told police she was swept away during an evening dinghy ride. The couple, both U.S. citizens, departed Hope Town around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday aboard an 8-foot-long, hard-bottom dinghy bound for Elbow Cay. According to a Facebook post from the Royal Bahamas Police Force on Sunday, the man’s wife “fell overboard with the boat keys, causing the vessel’s engine to shut off.” The statement adds that “strong currents subsequently carried her away, and he lost sight of her,” and that the man “then paddled the vessel to shore.” The woman’s husband managed to reach Marsh Harbour Boat Yard, on a neighboring island, near 4 a.m. Sunday, alerting someone there who contacted authorities. A search involving police, the Royal Bahamas Defense Force, and Hope Town Fire & Rescue remains ongoing as of Monday morning. The FBI and U.S. Embassy in Nassau have not yet commented on the case.

A long-haul flight was forced to turn around just four hours into the journey due to a medical emergency on board. Qantas Flight QF7, en route from Sydney, Australia, to Dallas, Texas, was abruptly halted over the North Fiji Basin when crew members decided that a passenger required urgent medical attention on the ground. The pilots surveyed the situation, dumped fuel into the ocean and cut short what was supposed to be a 17-hour journey, one of the longest nonstop passenger routes in the world. The double-decker A380 jet landed at Sydney Airport late Sunday evening, and the stricken passenger was rushed to the hospital. At the time of writing, the onward journey still hasn’t reached Dallas. “Our crew provided immediate medical assistance onboard and made the decision to return to Sydney to ensure the passenger could receive the necessary care,” a spokesperson said. Some flyers faced delays of 24 hours or more, the International Business Times reported. “We apologize for the inconvenience caused to our customers and are working to rebook them on alternative flights as quickly as possible,” the statement continued. There has been no update on the ill passenger’s health. “Really hoping the person who had the medical emergency is okay,” Australian Olympic diver Sam Fricker, who was one of the passengers, wrote on social media.

The British spin-off of Saturday Night Live has seen a dramatic drop in viewership since its launch in March. The third episode of SNL U.K. drew an audience that was 36 percent smaller than the second episode, and had 42 percent fewer viewers than the debut featuring SNL’s American comedy legend Tina Fey. As the show tries to get off the ground, new ratings data shows stiff competition. In the 10 p.m. Saturday night time slot, Channel 4’s Bill Bailey: Thoughtifier and Top of the Pops 1989 on BBC 2 both notched double the audience of the sketch-comedy show. However, as Variety noted, those two competing programs are on free-to-air channels, unlike Sky. But, among the line-up at Sky, SNL U.K. was the most-watched content on Saturday. Just like its American predecessor, SNL U.K. fuses sketch comedy and political satire. At the end of the cold open, the actors shout, “live from London it’s Saturday night,” replicating the iconic catch phrase from New York. After Tina Fey hosted the first show in London, Fifty Shades actor Jamie Dornan took his turn, followed by English actor Riz Ahmed. Comedian and actor Jack Whitehall will host the next episode of the show, which will air on April 25.

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Diners in Delaware appear to be the nation’s most generous tippers, while customers in California are the most miserly, according to a new analysis of dining trends at more than 164,000 restaurants across the United States. Toast, a Boston-based restaurant-tech company, found that people eating out in the First State had an average tipping percentage of 21.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025, up from 21.1 percent the previous quarter. California retained its status as the country’s stingiest gratuity giver, at 17.2 percent, unchanged from the previous year. Delaware is joined at the top by West Virginia, New Hampshire, and Indiana, with California joined at the bottom by D.C., and Washington state. The broader data shows tipping habits have flatlined nationally, remaining at 19.2 percent between the third and fourth quarters of 2025, suggesting that despite growing complaints about “tipflation” and rising unaffordability, Americans’ generosity at the register is holding steady.

A top Russian military leader has died in a plane crash in Russian-occupied Crimea. Alexander Otroshchenko, commander of the 45th Army of the Northern Fleet’s ​Air Force and Air Defense, was among the 30 people who died when an An-26 military transport plane crashed into a cliff on March 31. The cause of the crash remains unclear, with Russia’s Defense Ministry stating that the plane experienced a technical malfunction. The BBC Russian Service first reported that Otroshchenko, who was involved in Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and Russian operations in Syria, was believed to have been among those who had died in the crash. Several other Northern Fleet officers are also believed to be among the 23 passengers and seven crew members who died. The An-26 military transport plane was performing a scheduled flight close to where the fleet is based, and there was no indication that the aircraft had come under fire as part of the war between Russia and Ukraine. An-26s have been involved in several incidents over the years, including a training flight crash in northeastern Ukraine in 2020 that killed 26 people.