A girl in her teens said she survived a shark attack. She woke up in a hospital. She remembered that the first encounter was she punched the shark in the nose.
She was swimming along side the beach. She was swimming about 5 ft near Grassy Island when suddenly she got bitten by the shark.
“And 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,” the teenage girl said. She woke up in the hospital bed. On “Good Morning America,” she said, “then 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.”
Her bother ran to help. Her brother said, “She came back up and I saw, like, the blood and everything, and I saw the shark,” Willingham told “Good Morning America.” “So 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.”
Willingham, her brother, managed to put a tourniquet to slow and control the bleeding. She suffered serious injuries so she was airlifted to the hospital.
The doctors did emergency surgery and succeeded to stabilize the teen. She was lucky to survive.
She was swimming along side the beach. She was swimming about 5 ft near Grassy Island when suddenly she got bitten by the shark.
“And 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,” the teenage girl said. She woke up in the hospital bed. On “Good Morning America,” she said, “then 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.”
Her bother ran to help. Her brother said, “She came back up and I saw, like, the blood and everything, and I saw the shark,” Willingham told “Good Morning America.” “So 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.”
Willingham, her brother, managed to put a tourniquet to slow and control the bleeding. She suffered serious injuries so she was airlifted to the hospital.
The doctors did emergency surgery and succeeded to stabilize the teen. She was lucky to survive.
