In Florida, a shark attacked a man: he almost lost an arm

A 20-year-old from Florida was enjoying a swim near Juneau Beach Pier last week when he felt pain in his left arm. As it turned out, the guy was bitten by a shark. The details of the incident were reported by the publication Fox News.

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Bryce Albert said he felt an "extremely unique" sensation, like being hit by a "metal football boot." At first, he thought that a friend jokingly kicked him until he pulled his hand out of the water.

It was "fiery red" with "a piece of fat or muscle" sticking out of it, so Albert got out of the water as quickly as he could.

He was bitten by a shark, but he never saw her.

Concerned about the panic on the beach, Albert covered his hand and headed for the rescue station.

“Luckily they had a lifeguard station there where I was able to wrap my arm in a bandage. This helped a lot, you could say it saved me and my arm, otherwise I would have lost a lot of blood without the bandage,” he said.

A lifeguard bandaged Albert's arm, and his friend James took him to the hospital.

During the trip, the guy called his mother Tracy. She, in his opinion, initially thought that he was arrested or there were some problems, so he tried to mitigate the situation and said that he was bitten by a shark.

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At the hospital, he was told that the wound was most likely inflicted by a 6-foot blacktip shark.

Doctors strongly recommended emergency surgery to save the arm, as they believed the shark had damaged the main artery.

“Then they told me that I might wake up without my arm,” the victim said.

Fortunately, Albert woke up with his hand and his father by his side, so "he was not too upset."

The guy spent five nights and six days in the hospital. He did blood tests, he was given droppers, and he was vaccinated.

Two days ago, Albert underwent a second operation. He is now back home, takes many antibiotics and plans to see an infectious disease doctor in a couple of days.

He intends to start his studies as soon as possible and possibly return to the spot where he was bitten by the shark.

“I really want to go back to the Juneau Pier and swim in the same place where I was bitten. I feel that once I do this, I will be able to overcome the fear of returning to the same place where the incident occurred. If I can do this, I can do anything,” he said.

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From January to March, thousands of blacktip and short-tailed sharks migrate to the waters of Palm Beach County.

There was only one such incident recorded in the county last year, and the Florida Museum of Natural History notes that only 1959 unprovoked blacktip shark bites have been recorded in the International Shark Attack File (ISAF) since 11.

Florida accounted for 16 of 33 shark bites reported in the US last year.

Shark tracking trackingsharks.com reports that there have been five shark bites in the US this year.

Albert wants his encounter with the predator to serve as a reminder to others of what is important in life.

“It is much easier to complain and point out the negative aspects of situations than to look at the current situation as a whole and note the positive aspects - even when there cannot be a positive one. And this requires much more from a person,” Albert emphasized.

“For example, my advantages are that I looked at myself not as a failure, but as a lucky person, because the situation did not turn into a tragedy for me,” he concluded.

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