A 13-year-old boy who fished for lobsters with his family in the waters of Cayos de Florida (USA) was bitten shark and had to have ten stitches in one lip in the hospital, local media reported on Tuesday.
Fisher Hricco He was on vacation with his family Florida Keysin the far south of the state while enjoying a day of lobster fishing this mini-season when he was attacked by a nurse shark, a species that is not normally aggressive, and bit him in the face.
The young man told the TV channel News6 who was rising to the surface after catching a lobster with a net when he felt a jolt in his leg: “When I was holding the lobster in my hand, I felt a little bump on the back of one leg, I looked around and the shark was already in my face,” he said Hricco.
mother of a teenager Rhiannonwas driving a boat when he heard his son cry on the surface: “Mom, mom, shark! Get me out of here, get me out of the water!”
“It was the scariest five minutes of my life. Just hearing this horror in my son’s voice… I can’t get it out of my head,” says the mother.
hriko and his father, who also fished for lobsters, managed to get into the boat, and his mother hurried to the pier to take her son to the hospital.
Fischer told the publication he won’t let the horrific experience ruin his love for the sea: “I’m ready, but I feel like the first few times I’ll be a little scared, but I’ll go into the water. ,” he said.
depending on the page shark trackingAs of last Monday, 55 shark bites have been reported worldwide this year, 6 of them fatal.
AT USAwith 31 shark attacks, state Florida the one with the most entries (18) is followed by New York (6) and South Carolina (3).
International Shark Attack File (ISAF), organization University of Florida which is considered the world’s top authority on the subject, published its annual report last January stating that nine people have died in 2021 due to “unprovoked” shark bites.
ISAF investigated 137 alleged interactions between sharks D people reported worldwide in 2021 and confirmed 73 unprovoked and 39 provoked shark bites by humans.
In 2021, there were 28 cases in Floridawhich means 38% of the total that happened in that year worldwide, when a total of 73 unprovoked cases were recorded, of which 9 were fatal and 39 were provoked.
(EFE)
Source: RPP
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