Shark Attack Victim Lost ’20 Pounds of Flesh’

A 65-year-old woman is recovering after losing approximately “20 pounds of flesh” due to a 🦈Shark attack at 📍Rockaway Beach Monday.

This beach is not known to have had any shark incidents since 1953, but the woman was swimming alone when lifeguards heard her screaming for help, according to the New York Post.

She was pulled ashore and had lost a large chunk of her left leg. Lifeguards applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding until she could be rushed to the hospital.

Program Director at the Florida Program for Shark Research, Dr. Gavin Naylor, looked at pictures of the wound and said, “Definitely a shark bite.”

He added, “Looks as though it was a fairly clean single bite with some force. You can see the spacing between the teeth,” but could not determine the species without further examination.

Gary Metzger, Shark Research and Education Program Field Coordinator for the South Fork Natural History Museum noted the shark likely swam near the Queens beach in search of small schooling fish called menhaden.

He also noted that swimming alone in the evening is risky and “certainly is not advisable.”

“We advise people not to swim at dawn or dusk, largely because animals will move then, and predators will look for them and chase them down,” he went on.

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