Man Files O.C. Suit in Shark Bite Case
“Oh the shark bites, with his teeth dear” and the resulting wound may end up costing a San Diego aquarium, a marine transport company, and the Shark Club, a Costa Mesa nightclub replete with a shark tank.
Thursday, Steven Rosenbloom, who says he was bitten last March while helping to transfer an over-sized shark from the Shark Club’s tank to a vehicle moving the shark to the Stephen Birch Aquarium, filed suit in Orange County Superior Court.
Rosenbloom, a former employee of the club, says in his suit that the club’s owners and Richard A. Barbosa, Glenn Koschi and Martin Kendrick of Reef Systems, Inc. led him to believe they were experienced in handling sharks when they asked him to help move the shark. Instead, the suit said, Barbosa, Koschi and Kendrick “lacked sufficient expertise, knowledge, training” to make the transfer.
Hanour Corp., owners of the club at 841 Baker St., also knew the shark was of a “vicious disposition with dangerous propensities,” but neglected to properly inform Rosenbloom, the suit said.
The suit asks for an unspecified amount of damages for Rosenbloom’s medical bills, lost wages and for punitive damages.
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