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.
Pro Surfer Matt Wilkinson Shark Encounter
Photo: Kelly Cestari |
Surfer girl was bitten by a shark
14 year old surfer girl can’t wait to return to the waves despite a shark bite. Video by Tim Shortt
Brevard County's sixth shark-bite victim this year can't wait to get back in the water.
But 14-year-old Kaia Anderson of Floridana Beach will have to wait until sometime next year, when the severed tendons on her left heel have mended. Late Saturday afternoon, Kaia was surfing with friends when she was bitten
"I felt a tug on my leg," the teen said.
She shouted to her friends that she had been bitten, and they returned to the beach. A fisherman carried her closer to State Road A1A and her parents were contacted.
"She went into shock a little bit, but she didn't cry," said her father, Randall Anderson.
Kaia, whose name is Polynesian for 'ocean,' was treated at Sebastian River Medical Center. It took 100 stitches to patch up the bite, she said.
Anderson said the shark was likely swimming toward food, but clamped onto Kaia's heel instead.
"It immediately let go," he said.
The family lives just on the east side of A1A and uses the Floridana Beach Civic Association's beach access point to hit the surf. Getting from their front steps to the beach is a short walk.
But it's not a walk Kaia will be able to make on two feet for a while, let alone get back in the water. Her doctor said it's a nine-month recovery time for the Hoover Middle School student.
Kaia Anderson, 14, of Floridana Beach (south of Melbourne Beach) was bitten by a shark this past Saturday while surfing. While being interviewed, their dog Spot wanted to be in the photo. (Photo: TIM SHORTT/ FLORIDA TODAY)
"I'm going to miss it because the surf is really good in the winter," she said.
Kaia was Brevard's sixth bite victim this year and 29th in Florida, according to the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida.
Souce: floridatoday
Shark Attack on surfer south of Mandurah Western Australia 31 May 2016
Video from News24
The attack happened at a surf break close to Panamuna Drive in the Mandurah suburb of Falcon this afternoon.
The 29-year-old man was taken to Peel Health Campus where he is in a serious condition.
A hospital spokeswoman said medical staff were working to stabilise him.
Mandurah Mail reporter Nathan Hondros said it was a desperate scene when he arrived at the beach not long after the attack.
"The gentleman was on the beach by the time we got down here," he said.
"Ambulance crews were trying to resuscitate him by the looks of it. RAC rescue chopper came in yeah, so it was just quite desperate and heart wrenching scenes.
"He had lost a leg from what looked like above the knee, so it was quite a savage attack by the looks of it."
Mick Fanning fights off shark during Jeffreys Bay in South Africa
The final of the J-Bay Open had only just started when Fanning was knocked off his surfboard and into the sea.
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