Clayton Shulz, a baseball player at the University of North Florida, is recovering after being bitten by a shark in Jacksonville.
“The shark grabbed me and shook his head a little bit, and I think he kind of realized that he was biting the wrong thing, so he let go,” said Clayton.
The 20-year-old needed 400 stitches to repair the injury to his foot.
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A 14-YEAR-old girl shows needed 51 stitches after a 4ft-long barracuda leapt out of the ocean and clamped on to her arm.
According to the report in The Sun, Koral Wira was sitting on her family’s yacht near Venice, Florida when the fish “flew across the boat like a bullet” and fastened its teeth onto her arm.
Koral’s dad Rob had been fishing and the barracuda was attracted by the bait. He said: “The fish took my shark bait but then jumped out of the water, right at my daughter. It’s the craziest thing that’s ever happened in my life.”
After letting go of Koral’s arm, the fish fell on its side to the floor, where Rob killed it by stabbing it with a fillet knife.
18-year-old Timothy Delano was hospitalized in southwest Florida after an alligator bit off his left hand.
Delano was swimming with three friends in a Collier County canal around 9:30 p.m. Sunday when the alligator attacked. Delano was on a rock in the middle of the canal, but fell into the water. While he tried to get back on the rock, the 10-foot, 2-inch alligator grabbed his hand.
Delano and his friends managed to swim to shore and get into a car, where he called 911. A helicopter transported Delano to Lee Memorial Hospital.
Doctors were unable to reattach Delano’s hand, which was retrieved from the alligator’s stomach. However, Delano is in stable condition.
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A Ft. Lauderdale diver was bitten by the shark he was trying to rescue on Sunday. The diver was attempting to free the nurse shark from a net when it bit him. He was treated on the scene for lacerations but is expected to survive.
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An 11-foot alligator attacked a man at a Marion County nature park Tuesday. Pete Butt, 55, was diving in the Silver Springs Nature Park when he was attacked just before 6:00pm.
The alligator bit down on the victim’s head while he was testing water for the St. John’s River Management District.
“When we arrived on scene, we found the patient with lacerations to the neck and he also had a broken jaw,” said Miranda Iglesias of the Marion County Fire Department.
Butt was diving with a co-worker at the time, who heard the attack and came running to help. Butt was rushed to Shands Hospital in Gainesville in critical condition.
A man caught a 5-foot, black-tipped shark just off the shore on Jacksonville Beach, FL over the weekend.
Hannah Mayo’s luck with oceanic predators ain’t so good. At age 9, she was stung and scarred by a Portuguese man-of-war off the South Carolina coast. Now 18, the freshly graduated Brookwood High School student was bitten by a shark! The attack happened on Thursday at about 12:30 p.m. while Mayo was boogie boarding in waist-deep water off Jacksonville Beach in Florida. The shark chomped her on her left foot and leg.
Mayo’s boyfriend was next to her at the time and pulled her to shore and got her to the hospital where she received 29 stitches.
According to Mayo’s mom, “She said she’s done with the ocean.”
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A 49 -year-old man was airlifted to safety after a shark bit him about 50 miles northwest of Tarpon Springs on Sunday.
Mike Seymore, a crewmember on the 40-foot commercial fishing vessel Miss Irene, was bitten in the leg by a shark while attempting to remove a fishing hook.
The Coast Guard immediately launched a rescue helicopter crew. They arrived on scene and safely hoisted Seymore and transferred him to Tampa General Hospital.
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A tiger shark the length of a small boat came ashore on Nokomis Beach in Florida.
The exhausted 11-foot shark was belly up and seemed close to death, but scientists from the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota tried to save the animal by towing it to deeper water and releasing it.
Mote spokeswoman Hayley Rutger said the scientists “saw no signs of external damage” to the shark and could not say what was wrong with the animal.
Hall speculated it could have been tired from fighting with a fisherman or poisoned by the oil spill.
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