A teenage girl is in serious but stable condition after being bitten by a large shark while scalloping near Keaton Beach on Florida's Gulf Coast Thursday.
The Taylor County Sheriff's Office confirmed in a statement on social media a juvenile"had sustained a shark bite while scalloping near Grassy Island in water approximately five feet deep."Though the type of shark has not been determined, TCSO said it was about nine feet long."A family member reportedly jumped in the water and beat the shark until the juvenile was free," TCSO said.
The brother also put a tourniquet on her leg and made sure she stayed awake while she was taken back to Keaton Beach,"ultimately saving her life," the father said.The girl was flown to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and underwent emergency surgeries, her dad wrote.She has sustained"an unreal amount of damage" to her thigh and"the nerve on the back of the thigh was damaged severely," he said.
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