WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — A ten-year-old lady is staying optimistic after fending off a shark throughout an encounter at a Florida beach over the weekend. On Sunday, the Jupiter Island Public Safety Department was known as to Hobe Sound Beach for a younger lady that had been bitten by a shark.
The lady, Jasmine Carney, informed native news outlet WPTV the shark got here proper at her whereas she was visiting the beach.
“Something grabbed me. So, I’m like, ‘don’t you touch me,’” Jasmine recounted. “It looked pretty big. It was grey. It hurt, so I’m like, kick it, run away.”
Jasmine’s adoptive grandma, who goes by “Nana,” informed the news outlet that she was “amazed.”
“She came running up that beach, screaming, ‘Nana! Nana! Something bit me. Something bit me,’” she recalled. “And I saw all the blood and went and got a lifeguard.”
Jasmine was flown to a kids’s hospital with a extreme harm to her proper foot. Her surgeon, Dr. Nir Hus, mentioned he was stunned by how calm she was and that she was “very positive from the get-go.”
“I fought a shark and won,” Jasmine mentioned.
Jasmine is anticipated to make a full restoration over the subsequent month or two. She’ll should miss Tae Kwon Do for some time however ought to have the ability to take the sector in time for the subsequent flag soccer season, Nana informed TCPalm.
While she recovers, Jasmine mentioned her 6-year-old brother helps her hold calm.
“He’s pretty curious, so I might as well stay calm because I know he wouldn’t want me to be scared because he’s the best little brother in the world,” Jasmine mentioned.
In August, a shark assault within the Florida Keys left a 10-year-old boy without part of his leg. The boy had been snorkeling at Looe Key Reef when the shark bit his decrease leg, which was later amputated under the knee.
A 17-year-old additionally had her leg partially amputated this summer season after she was attacked by a shark whereas scalloping off the coast of Keaton Beach, roughly 80 miles southeast of Tallahassee.
Of the greater than 1,600 shark assaults reported within the U.S. since 1900, over half have been in Florida, in accordance with a latest report.