Date: August 23, 2007 Late-night
Location: Sarasota Bay, Florida
Shark: Bull Shark
Andrea Lynch was on a boating trip with friends off of the coast of Sarasota, FL when she and some others decided to go for a late-night swim. A 7ft-long bull shark interrupted the fun. As she lay on her back in the ocean the shark anchored its teeth into her side, sinking them into her hips and ribs.
“I was screaming. There was blood all over.”
The shark shook her, and then released quickly, allowing Andrea to race back to the boat. Apparently, since it was night her friends didn’t see the attack and thought she was joking, refusing to believe that a shark had attacked her.
“I reached back with my hand”, she said, “and felt these gashes on me, and there was blood running down my body and pooling into the boat.” She ended up with 17 puncture wounds several of them just narrowly missing her lungs.
She later joked, “Either it didn’t like the taste of human or it thought I was too bony.”
Tags: Bull shark, girl, ocean, shark attack
