6 Surgeries Later… Shark Attack Victim Has Reconstructed Foot

A Fort Worth boy survived a shark attack in early July, and surgeons in Houston have been working ever since to save his foot.

The attack happened off of a remote beach about three and a half hours from Galveston. Nicholas Vossler, 12, was playing near a sandbar when a bull shark grabbed his left foot and began to maul it.

A helicopter then took him to Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. Nicholas has undergone six surgeries to repair his badly damaged foot, which included a skin graft and muscle graft from his arm and leg.

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Shark Attacks Boy in Texas!

A 12-year-old boy is recovering after being attacked by a shark in Texas. It happened Thursday and the boy has already undergone several surgeries.

Vossler and his family were at their beach house when he says his 12-year-old son Nicholas was attacked by a shark while swimming.

“He said he felt it grab his leg. I mean, his foot, and start, ya know, yanking on it. He saw the shark,” Vossler said.

In seconds, he said the bull shark clamped its teeth into his son’s left foot, nearly ripping it off.

“I had to put the skin back across his foot and take my shirt off, and get it wrapped because the arteries were…he was bleeding out,” Vossler said.

The attack happened Thursday evening off the coast of Sunday Beach near Port O’Connor.

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Shark Bites Girl at Texas Beach!

Kori Robertson was bitten by a shark at about 3 p.m. on Memorial Day hanging at the beach on Follett’s Island in waist-deep water about 50 yards from shore.

Robertson and her friend Shelby thought it might have been a jellyfish until they looked at her leg and saw the teeth marks. Her boyfriend wrapped a towel around the wound to stop the bleeding and rushed her to UTMB in Galveston.

Doctors think she was bitten by a shark approximately 5-feet long and say the shark bit her twice.

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Another Shark Attack in Texas!

A Texas fisherman is recovering Friday from injuries he sustained after he was bitten by a shark in the Texas coastal waters off Galveston.

Charlie Gauzer was fishing off Galveston Island when he said the shark approached his boat and bit down on his leg. “I started to feel pain…I looked down and I had blood coming out of my leg,” Gauzer said. The shark bit deeper into Gauzer’s leg as the fisherman tried to escape.

“It was gashed pretty good, down to the bone,” Gauzer said. The shark missed the artery but did severe Gauzer’s Achilles tendon.

The attack on Gauzer is the second shark attack near Galveston’s 8 Mile Road Beach in less than a month. A surfer was attacked by a shark at the end of June requiring 60 stitches to repair the gash.

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South Padre Shark Bite!

An Edinburg teen needed 15 stitches to close a leg wound after a shark bit her left leg.

Deidre Casas, 14, was in the Gulf of Mexico at South Padre Island on Friday when she reached a sandbar. Casas said something was tugging on her left leg, then “there was blood everywhere.” The girl headed for shore to get help.

Her mother, Joann Casas, says doctors did X-rays and decided the girl was bitten by a small shark, based on the type of wound and marks on her lower leg. The cut runs several inches across the front upper part of the girl’s ankle.

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Gator In The Pool!

A 5 foot alligator decided to take a dip in a family’s backyard pool in Port Acres, TX. More pics here!

Victim Of The Day

Stung by a stingray last month on April 13 at Galveston Island, TX. Yeoch!

Thanks Staci! Get well soon!