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

Cole Taschman survived a harrowing shark attack in Florida, requiring multiple surgeries and extensive rehabilitation, but ...

Taschman was 16 when a 4- to 5-foot-long blacktip reef shark bit him in 2013, resulting in 93 stitches and two surgeries.

Waves splashing over the reef at Bathtub Reef Beach at sunrise on Hutchinson Island, Florida. (Photo credit: Diana Robinson ...

After being attacked and being bitten by a shark 11 years back a Florida man is recovering after being bitten in another shark attack at the same beach this week ...

Cole Taschman, 28, was surfing with friends at the Bathtub Beach in Stuart in Florida last week when he was attacked by a ...

After being attacked and being bitten by a shark 11 years back, a Florida man is recovering after being bitten in another shark attack at the same beach this week ...

A Florida surfer said he was bitten by a shark on the ‘same beach, same exact rock’ where another shark bit him in 2013.

When Taschman was 16, he had been bitten by a four-foot blacktip reef shark pup at the same beach. (Cole Taschman) "They're scavengers," he said. "Sharks are opportunistic eaters unless they're in ...

More than a decade after his first shark bite, Cole Taschman, 28, is recovering from another bite he suffered at the same beach. Taschman's first encounter occurred when he was 16 while surfing in ...