Forget about shark bites: Rattle snake spotted in New Smyrna Beach surf
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Already known as the shark bite capital of the world, New Smyrna Beach has another creature making headlines: a 5-foot-long rattle snake spotted in the surf.


Headline Surfer photos by Henry Frederick / New Smyrna Beach Mayor Adam Barringer is shown far left on the dais at City Hall with then-Commissioner Jim Hathaway last year. The mayor is in hot water with the Florida Commission on Ethics for holding a private retirement dinner for Hathaway at his wine-bar restaurant paid with a city credit card last November. The complaint was brought by citizen watchdog Bob Tolley shown in the inset.