Teenager survives shark attack saw fish bite leg surfing Florida

'It bit straight through my leg': Surfer, 17, suffers horror wound after 7-ft shark attacked him when he fell off his board in waters off Florida

Jordan Hooper, 17, had been surfing near Ormond Beach, Florida when he fell off his surfboard and kicked something in the water

A surfer from Florida is recovering after being attacked by a shark which left him requiring dozens of stitches in his leg.

Jordan Hooper, 17, was surfing near Ormond Beach near Daytona Beach and was 100 feet from shore when he was knocked off his board by a wave.

He felt something in the water as he kicked away, and suddenly felt a searing pain around his right leg.

Although he never came face to face with the shark, he knew that he had been the victim of an attack after seeing the sea turn red around him.

'I started swimming toward the board and that's when I kicked something in the water. It grabbed completely around my leg.

'As soon as I kicked it, boom! It all happened so fast! It completely grabbed onto my leg,' he said to Tracking Sharks.

'The back of it is the worst. All of its teeth went straight through my leg,' Hooper said to WIST. 'They said it could have been anywhere from a 6 to 7-foot blacktip.'

He didn't know what he had kicked until he suddenly felt his leg, pictured, being clamped down upon. The sea around him turned red and Hooper realized he had been bitten by a shark

'That's when things just started going through my head. I turned and saw all the blood in the water and confirmed what happened. I knew I needed to swim to my board.' 

'I think, if anything, I kind of got in its way more than anything when I kicked it. I think it lost its cool and just snapped on me,' he said. 

The current in the ocean was so strong and coupled with blood loss from his shark bite, Hooper struggled to swim back to his surfboard 

'I became exhausted, and felt like I was going to pass out,' he said. 

He tried to signal his friends, but they didn't understand what had happened.

The teenage have been swimming in the warm waters off Ormond Beach, Florida

'That's when I realized I was wasting my energy, but I needed to get on shore before anything could get any worse.' 

Fortunately, a large wave came by picking up the teen along with his board giving him a ride back to the beach. 

It took a further 45 minutes before paramedics arrived to take the teenager to hospital.

He had to go to the emergency room for a few hours and will have to stay out of the water while his leg heals and the stitches are removed. 

Nevertheless, Hooper says he plans to get back on top of his surfboard as soon as he is healed. 

'I'm sure I'm going to have a little bit of PTSD. I'm going to step on something in the water, and it will freak me out a bit. That's going to take some time to get over for sure,' he said.

'If you look at it, every time you get in the water there is going to be a shark 50 feet from you. They are just as scared of you as you are of them. Obviously, I am going to get back in, it's just going to be sitting in my head the whole time. I was bitten by a shark and I don't want to do it again.'  

Hooper is the 10th shark bite victim of the year in Volusia County.

Surfer falls on shark

Video from Hydrophilik

Jason Griffeth of Vero Beach, known on his YouTube and social media pages as Hydrophilik, was at North Jetty at Fort Pierce Inlet  over the weekend where he captured on his drone video  a surfer  wiping out and  landing seemingly on top or within inches of a shark.

Each February, a seasonal migration of blacktip sharks and other coastal sharks takes place along Florida's coast. Although there are a few bites each spring, considering there are tens of thousands of sharks in the water and tens of thousands of humans, there are amazingly few interactions.

13-year-old surfer helps rescue man after boat capsizes

Drone video from Kevin Cadby captured a 13-year-old boy making a daring rescue Friday afternoon after a boat capsized off the coast of the Jupiter Inlet.

A drone captured video of a boat capsizing in Jupiter Inlet, Florida, and a daring rescue in the rough water by a nearby 13-year-old surfer.

The drone pilot, Kevin Cadby, was flying his drone at Jupiter Inlet to capture video of the water and the boats, as he occasionally does. He saw the boat coming in from far out and decided to follow the boat with his drone, he said.

“The wind was blowing in at 20+ miles per hour, that inlet can be treacherous,” Cadby said.

As the drone flew over, video shows a wave coming from behind the boat, toppling it, and a man in a red shirt trying to swim to safety and stay afloat.

The man swam to a group of rocks and a 13-year-old surfer, Sam Ruskin, swam over to him and offered him his surfboard, which the boater used to get back to land.

“My first concern was to make sure nobody else was on the boat,” Cadby said, and he continued to follow the boat and look for other people using his drone.

Ruskin, a middle school student, told WPEC everything happened so fast, but he paddled out to the man immediately when he saw what happened. “Just speaks about his character,” Ruskin’s father told WPEC.

Girl attacked by Shark in Florida

A porn star Molly Cavalli was bitten while broadcasting from a shark cage.

But the shoot went horribly wrong when a ten-feet lemon shark broke through the metal barrier and took a chunk out of her foot and ankle.

Molly is then seen desperately scrambling to get out of the water and back to the safety of the film crew’s boat.

Once out of the bloody waters she screams when she sees the full extent of her injuries.

Friends try to comfort the star as she burst into tears.

It had been hoped Cavalli’s risky stunt would help show off custom built technology to support underwater live feeds from anywhere in the world.

Not surprisingly,  the terrifying incident meant the shoot had to be cut short so they could dash Molly to a nearby hospital.