A teenage woman survived a shark assault in Stone Harbor, New Jersey as a shark bit her foot whereas she was browsing saying “it scared me, I screamed below the water and it was scary,” reported CBS Information Tuesday.Â
Maggie Drozdowski, a resident of Chester County shared her story of how she survived the assault and hoped that nobody else goes via it. She acquired a number of stitches after the assault.
The teenage woman stated: “I used to be in shock and I did not even realise what was occurring till I used to be out of the water. But it surely scared me. I screamed below the water. It was scary.”
After the incident, she was closely bleeding. Drozdowski stated that “after a giant wave she misplaced her board. That is when a shark grabbed her foot and pulled her underwater. She says she fought for her life.”
“I actually shook it off as a lot as I might. It was arduous although it was heavy. However I shook my foot as arduous as I might to get it off,” she stated.
Sarah O’Donnell, her pal was the eyewitness of what she was going via.
O’Donnell stated: “However then she received up and she or he was screaming, ‘One thing bit me, one thing bit me.'”
“So I stated ‘Rapidly get on the board and paddle away,’ as a result of I assumed it was a crab or one thing. I might by no means think about a shark.”
Drozdowski stated she needed to “paddle all the way in which again to the shore after the assault.”
The sufferer stated: “It was arduous and I did not catch one wave on my manner out both. It took me three or 4 minutes to totally get out of the water, after which I needed to limp with the board in my hand all the way in which up throughout the sand to the seashore to get throughout to her household.”
There have solely been 15 unprovoked shark assaults in New Jersey with the final one in 2006, based on the Worldwide Shark Assault File.
An adjunct teacher of Marine Science from Stockton College stated {the teenager} did the whole lot proper by shaking off the shark.
“It might have gotten a lot worse. I imply, a shark bites one thing to eat then it can use its head and jaws to shake it, so it might break a bit free. So sure, by kicking and screaming and shifting she saved her personal life,” Stephen Nagiewicz, an adjunct professor stated.
“At the moment, no restrictions on seashore actions are deliberate. Nonetheless, the borough of Stone Harbor urges all beachgoers to train warning and cling to any security tips issued by native authorities,” wrote a Stone Harbor spokesperson.
“Yeah! I assumed I used to be gonna should get my foot amputated,” Drozdowski stated. “But it surely did not find yourself being that dangerous. I feel the wetsuit sort of saved me as a result of it protected my foot.”
Drozdowski stated she is trying ahead to having fun with the seashore this summer time, not the water.Â
