Florida girl, 13, sitting in clear shallow water is attacked by six-foot-long bull shark TWICE - brave teen punched shark, but it soon returned
Daily Mail
May 13, 2023
Ella Reed, of Florida, was sitting in shallow water with her friends on Thursday when a suspected six-foot long bull shark that had been swimming nearby sank its teeth into her side at Fort Pierce Beach
She punched the shark in the face to deter it from attacking her again and it swam off, but eventually the terrorizer came back and she had to fend it off again. The teenager screamed out for her mother as the shark continued to circle her
The young girl sustained injuries to her stomach, arm, finger, and knee and had to get 19 stitches
Ella Reed, of Florida, was sitting in shallow water with her friends on
Thursday at For Pierce Beach when a suspected six-foot long bull shark
that had been swimming nearby sank its teeth into her side.
'The shark itself was so powerful. That was what I felt
the most because it was hitting my stomach really hard,' she said.
Bull sharks are some of the most aggressive in the ocean, as the name implies. She
punched the shark in the face to deter it from attacking her again and
it swam off, but eventually the terrorizer came back and she had to fend
it off again. The teenager screamed out for her mother as the shark
continued to circle her.
The young girl sustained injuries to her
stomach, arm, finger, and knee and had to get 19 stitches.
2 comments:
That brave young lady is very lucky.
I used to wade fish for Speckled Trout near Galveston. Now I don't even walk in the beach water at low tide. I took my wife to Hawaii last year. Stayed at Waikiki and a large shark attack occurred near the location where we rode in an outrigger. I realize that a person's number can come up at anytime, but why increase the odds? I'll not venture where people are not the top of the food chain.
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