Press Watch, Honolulu Advertiser, December 21, 2009
A 28-year-old female visitor from Kirkland, Wash. sustained superficial, non life-threatening injuries Monday in an attack by an adult female monk seal in waters off Kaua’i. […]
The incident took place at around 4:43 p.m. at Mahaulepu Beach on the south shore.
The woman had been snorkeling with a friend at the beach when the current sent her adrift to an area where several monk seals, including an adult female and a pup, were swimming.
The adult female apparently felt threatened by the snorkeler and attacked her. […]