Florida girl, 13, sitting in clear shallow water is attacked by six-foot-long bull shark TWICE
Florida girl, 13, sits in clear shallow water and is attacked TWICE by six-foot bull shark – brave teen hit shark, but he quickly returned
- Florida’s Ella Reed was in shallow water with her friends on Thursday when a suspected six-foot bull shark attacked her
- The young girl suffered injuries to her stomach, arm, finger and knee and required 19 stitches
- She punched the shark in the face to prevent it from attacking her again and it swam away, but eventually the terrorist came back.
A 13-year-old girl had to fight a shark that wouldn’t leave her alone on a Florida beach, not once but twice.
Florida’s Ella Reed was sitting in shallow water on Fort Pierce Beach with her friends on Thursday when a suspected six-foot 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 hit my stomach really hard,” she said Local 10 News. “It wouldn’t leave me alone, so I had to use my arm and my hand, too, so it got my arm and my finger.”
She punched the shark in the face to prevent it from attacking her again and it swam away, but eventually the terrorist came back and she had to fight it off again. The teen screamed for her mother as the shark continued to circle her.
Her mother, who was not identified, was shocked to see her daughter “covered in blood almost from head to toe.”
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Ella Reed, of Florida, was in shallow water with her friends on Thursday when a suspected six-foot bull shark that had been swimming nearby sank its teeth into her side off Fort Pierce Beach
She punched the shark in the face to prevent it from attacking her again and it swam away, but eventually the terrorist came back and she had to fight it off again. The teen screamed for her mother as the shark continued to circle her
‘[Ella] couldn’t really see what was going on,’ said the mother. “She was shaking but she was calm.”
The young girl suffered injuries to her stomach, arm, finger and knee and required 19 stitches, according to Local 10 News.
Despite needing nearly 20 stitches, Ella said she didn’t really feel the pain at first.
“I was a bit in shock with everything that happened,” she told the local newspaper. “So I wasn’t really in pain, because the adrenaline was going through the roof.”
The young girl suffered injuries to her stomach, arm, finger and knee and required 19 stitches
She is currently recovering at home and said she is proud of her scars, knowing that the attack could have been much worse
Not letting the attack stop her from enjoying the ocean, Ella plans to return to the clear blue waters after she fully recovers.
She is currently recovering at home and said she is proud of her scars, knowing that the attack could have been much worse.
Florida has the most recorded shark bites in the world. According to the University of Florida’s International Shark File, a total of 57 unprovoked attacks occurred worldwide last year and 16 in Florida alone.
Australia recorded the second most unprovoked shark bites.