A 17-year-old girl survived a shark bite at Keaton Beach in Florida on June 30th. The teenage girl was near Grassy Island next to the in water 5 feet deep when she was bitten.
When the victim, Addison Bethea, was interviewed in her hospital bed by ‘Good Morning America,’ she said about the attack “[a]nd the next thing I know something latches onto my leg and I was like that’s not right. And then I look and it’s a big old shark.” She continued by saying “[t]hen I remember from watching the Animal Planet to like…punch [it] in the nose or something like that. And I couldn’t get around to his nose the way he bit me.”
She suffered from serious injuries because of the bite, but she’s still alive. Her firefighter and emergency medical technician brother, Rhett Willingham, went running to save her after seeing her with the shark. When they interviewed him next to Addison, he said “[s]he came back up and I saw, like, the blood and everything, and I saw the shark.” He also said “[s]o then I swam over there, grabbed her, and then pushed them all, kind of trying to separate them. And he just kept coming. So, I grabbed her, swam backwards and kicked him and then yelled for help.”
Then, according to Good Morning America, Rhett treated her wound, and she was sent to surgery. She is also scheduled to have another one to help her leg.
After the increase of sharks in 2021, especially in Florida (60% of bites in the US), many people have been getting hurt from them. For now, Addison has been well and treated, but what would you do in a shark attack?
Link: Teenage girl speaks out after surviving shark attack at Florida beach – ABC News go.com
When the victim, Addison Bethea, was interviewed in her hospital bed by ‘Good Morning America,’ she said about the attack “[a]nd the next thing I know something latches onto my leg and I was like that’s not right. And then I look and it’s a big old shark.” She continued by saying “[t]hen I remember from watching the Animal Planet to like…punch [it] in the nose or something like that. And I couldn’t get around to his nose the way he bit me.”
She suffered from serious injuries because of the bite, but she’s still alive. Her firefighter and emergency medical technician brother, Rhett Willingham, went running to save her after seeing her with the shark. When they interviewed him next to Addison, he said “[s]he came back up and I saw, like, the blood and everything, and I saw the shark.” He also said “[s]o then I swam over there, grabbed her, and then pushed them all, kind of trying to separate them. And he just kept coming. So, I grabbed her, swam backwards and kicked him and then yelled for help.”
Then, according to Good Morning America, Rhett treated her wound, and she was sent to surgery. She is also scheduled to have another one to help her leg.
After the increase of sharks in 2021, especially in Florida (60% of bites in the US), many people have been getting hurt from them. For now, Addison has been well and treated, but what would you do in a shark attack?
Link: Teenage girl speaks out after surviving shark attack at Florida beach – ABC News go.com
