Another South Africa “Nip”

Simon Bruce, 20, was bitten on the foot by a shark at Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday morning. He sustained five bites in his left foot, three of which are “quite big and deep” and required stitches.

Bruce was walking out into the sea at about 8:30. He was no more than chest deep when he felt a bump on his foot. He didn’t feel the bite at all.

Then he felt something rub against the top of his legs and assumed right away it was a shark.

He said he didn’t see the shark at all and immediately headed back to the beach. While he was wading back to shore his foot started to “feel funny” and he realised he had been bitten.

Two friends on the beach wrapped his badly bleeding foot in a towel and took him to a hospital where he received a tetanus shot, the bite wounds were disinfected and stitched, and his foot was bandaged.

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