A bodyboarder bled to death after a shark mauled his left leg, authorities said in Santa Barbara, California, yesterday as they closed three beaches over the weekend. Lucas Ransom, 19, was in the surf line about 100 metres off Surf Beach when a shark suddenly pulled him under. A friend who was with Ransom and other people at the beach pulled him from the water, but the University of California, student had received a severe wound and died a short time later. The last shark attack on Surf Beach was in 2008, when what was believed to be a great white bit a surfer's board but he was unharmed.