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2 Makaha condo workers say snorkeler was calm after being bit on the arm Roger Debebar and Anthony Chapman don't claim they did anything heroic yesterday when an injured and bleeding woman approached them around 8:40 a.m. near the edge of the beach at the Hawaiian Princess condominiums and spoke three words: "Help, please," said the woman, who had been snorkeling moments earlier. "Shark." But Bryan Cheplic, spokesman for the city's emergency service department, said the two men's quick actions may have made all the difference in the state's first shark attack of the year. "They used towels and blankets to control the bleeding and save her life, essentially," he said. "Nowadays, nobody wants to get involved. And the main point here is that these people got involved and they helped her." Chapman, 49, said the woman was... [read full story]

