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littlewolf

(3,813 posts)
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 03:04 PM Aug 2015

10 year old girl gets bitten by shark, pulls 6 year old friend to safety.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/girl-bitten-by-shark-pulls-friend-to-safety/34843102

Kaley Szarmack said she was in waist deep water about 3:30 Wednesday afternoon near 25th Avenue South when a shark tore into her leg.
Rescuers rushed her to Wolfson Children's Hospital, where she underwent surgery and received 90 stitches to close the wound.
I spoke with Kaley in her hospital room Friday morning. She's a tough kid and has a good sense of humor. She had some pretty deep cuts in her leg, but firefighters were able to stop the bleeding at the beach.

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Kaley said she's feeling better every day.
She said after the shark bit her, she ran to shore but then noticed her 6-year-old friend was still in the water, so she got back out there and pulled the girl in. Kaley said she just did what she had to do.
“I thought it was like a crab or something holding onto me, and then I turned around and you could see the back of it thrashing,” Kaley said. “I was like, 'Oh my gosh, that's a shark!' So we all ran in and that little 6-year-old, she wasn't fast enough. She is very skinny, too -- shouldn't have a lot of meat or anything on her. So I was like, 'Oh gosh.' So it kind of freaked me out.
“I wasn't really paying attention to my leg then, so I ran out. She wasn't too far out, but it was close enough to where I probably could have gotten her, so I went and grabbed her, and I ran her up to the beach.”

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I asked her if she's planning on going back in the ocean after she's better and out of the hospital.
“I am sure of it,” Kaley said. “It's just my favorite thing to do.”
Dr. George Burgess, one of the world's top shark experts, said, looking at Kaley's wound, it appears the shark that bit her was probably no more than 4 feet long. He's not sure of the species, because the shark didn't leave any teeth behind. Burgess said he plans to follow up with Kaley to learn more about what happened.





I can not imagine this.
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10 year old girl gets bitten by shark, pulls 6 year old friend to safety. (Original Post) littlewolf Aug 2015 OP
She saw someone in need and acted. Solly Mack Aug 2015 #1
Compassionate and courageous suffragette Aug 2015 #3
Now THAT is a young Woman! Octafish Aug 2015 #2
"I am sure of it." Swimming in the Florida Atlantic... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #4

Solly Mack

(90,773 posts)
1. She saw someone in need and acted.
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 03:28 PM
Aug 2015

The world needs more of that.

Even when her own need was great, she saw someone who needed help more.

She's awesome!

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
4. "I am sure of it." Swimming in the Florida Atlantic...
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 03:43 PM
Aug 2015

I have swum in it since the early-50s, and she is right: "It's just my favorite thing to do."

Good girl!

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