New Smyrna Beach, Florida shark bite victim Andrew Heald discusses his September 2, 2010 attack with the the Daytona Beach News-Journal and mentions being surrounded by mullet in mirky water and then he saw a fin poke out of the water.
“I have to get out of here,” Heald said he immediately thought. . . Heald guessed the fin was from a 5- to 6-foot blacktip shark. The blacktip is probably to blame for most reported human attacks in Florida, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, but never a fatality. . . The fin disappeared below the surface, and Heald figured it was his chance to try to catch a wave in. Then it hit him, hard. . . “I heard a big splash, and it felt like I was being tackled,” he said.
Heald, unlike California’s Lucas Ransom, survived with a few stitches and is already back in the water.
[Link: Daytona Beach News-Journal]
