A man is in critical condition after a shark bit him off Florida’s eastern coast, on Friday June, 28, Nassau County Sheriff's Office said on social media. The Sheriff's Office Marine unit responded to a distress call from a man aboard a vessel, who 'had suffered a severe bite to his right arm.
“He had a severe sharkbite to his forearm here, lost a lot of blood. He was bleeding pretty bad," Nassau County Sheriff's Office saidKimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in Forbes and she has also worked in broadcast television as a reporter for Hawaii-based news station KHON2 News.A man is in critical condition after he was bitten by a shark on Florida’s eastern coast, according to officials.
The sheriff’s office said deputies found the man — who has not been identified — “with a critical injury.” He said a deputy “assessed him real quick” before he “applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding” on his arm. The sheriff’s office shared photos from the incident, including a deputy wrapping the tourniquet around the man’s right arm as he rested on the medium-sized boat.
"Humans are 30 times more likely to be struck by lightning in Florida than to be bitten by a shark, Experts agree that the increase in the number of shark bites in recent years is more related to an increase in human visitors than to an increase in shark populations or activity,” the commission's website said.
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