Ohio woman describes shark attack off Daytona Beach Shores

DAYTONA Beach front, Fla. – A female is recovering at household in Columbus, Ohio, following becoming bitten by a shark in Daytona Seaside Shores around the weekend.

Tasa Summers, 40, advised News 6 she was on family vacation with her boyfriend, and they have been remaining in a hotel appropriate off the beach.

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Summers claimed she put in a good deal of time in the drinking water this previous Saturday.

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“Never considered taking pleasure in the working day at the seaside would land me in the emergency home with stitches,” Summers stated.

She understands sharks lurk in ocean waters but stated it was not major of head though on family vacation.

“Obviously, we know when we take a look at that there are sharks in the ocean, and that is usually going to be a chance — but hardly ever did I expect that would come about to me,” Summers said.

She explained she to start with felt a sharp discomfort in her leg, until eventually it sunk its teeth into her leg.

“I looked down, and the initially detail that arrived to head was, ‘That’s a shark,’ and the next matter was, ‘And it just little bit me.’”

She stated all she could feel about was not falling in the water, apprehensive it would chunk other components of her body.

Her boyfriend bravely aided by fending off the shark.

“My boyfriend variety of swatted in direction of its nose which is what they ordinarily inform you to do when you come into contact,” Summers mentioned.

Although screaming and bleeding she ran for aid on the shore.

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“Everyone about was so practical, and I’m just so thankful for that,” she stated.

She explained employees from her hotel and even a nurse who transpired to be at the beach front place a bandage on her wound and tied a makeshift tourniquet close to her leg right up until initially responders arrived.

Unexpected emergency crews took her to a healthcare facility in which she had to get 8 stitches on her leg.

“At the prime of my ankle, I have the leading enamel marks from the shark. The bottom of my ankle variety of experienced the bottom enamel, and that is what seriously grabbed my calf and took a chunk out of that,” Summers claimed.

(While Summers delivered images of the wound, Information 6 has made the decision versus presenting numerous of them in this tale because of to the graphic nature of their content.)

She is now home and healing. She mentioned the incident could have been worse.

Summers is relieved that the shark bit her as an alternative of the tiny small children who were near her at the time.

Whilst this working experience was frightening, she claimed this will not be her previous time at the seaside.

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“I appreciate the ocean, and I adore to be at the seashore, so I could possibly have a very little little bit of hesitancy at very first, but it most likely won’t previous for lengthy,” she mentioned.

She is the fifth human being bitten by shark in Volusia County this year.