Two young American tourists on a dream vacation in the Bahamas had their trip turned into a terrifying ordeal when they were attacked by a shark while swimming in Bimini Bay. Rileigh Decker, 20, and Summer Layman, 24, suffered bites from what they believe was a bull shark. They were rescued by friends and family and airlifted to a hospital in the Bahamas before being flown back to Florida for further treatment.
“I just put my head in my hands and started praying that God wouldn’t take my life and I would live,” Rileigh Decker, 20, said through tears from her hospital bed. “It was very scary.”A dream vacation in the Bahamas for two young American tourists turned into a nightmare when they jumped into the sparkling blue water hand-in-hand and mere minutes later were attacked by a shark.
“I was like, ‘Summer, what was that?’ And she was like, ‘Don’t scare me like that.’ And probably about two minutes later, we were right by the ladder. I felt my leg get tugged down, and I immediately knew I was bit by a shark,” Decker recalled.Their group of friends and family immediately pulled them out of the water to safety. They wrapped a tourniquet around Decker's right leg and found Layman also suffering a bite.
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