UPDATE: More Details on Last Weekend’s Attack

It was just minutes after Susan Dornquast and her husband posed for a picture standing knee-deep in the ocean off Garden City Beach, when a 5-foot shark mauled her right calf.

Susan was standing alone in the water after her husband returned to shore at about 4 p.m. last Saturday.

She turned around to watch the ocean waves come in, and that’s when the shark got her.

“I felt him hit my left leg, and I seen him scurry off, and that’s when I knew he got my other leg.” All I seen was the bubbles from the water. I didn’t see a fin or nothing on the shark. It went away fast. I was crawling, trying to get away because I was scared the shark would come back. I never let out a big scream or nothing. I just kept yelling, ‘Don, Don, Come get me! I was hit by a shark!’”

She was rushed to Waccamaw Community Hospital, where doctors cleaned her wounds before she underwent a 1½-hour surgery.

No arteries or major blood vessels were affected, she said. She received more than 40 stitches, with 28 on the outside of her leg. They said it was a 9-inch bite.

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