“It’s a shark that’s been in our park for sometime”, Clint Tracy of the Boca Raton Fire and Rescue told reporters.
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But rescuers could not get the shark to release the woman’s arm, so they loaded woman and shark into the ambulance and headed for Boca Raton Regional Hospital.
Beachgoer Shlomo Jacob told the South Florida Sun Sentinel: “The shark wouldn’t give up”.
Unless, of course, those humans refuse to leave them alone cas reportedly was the case on that Boca beach.
And no matter what she did, the 2-foot nurse shark refused to release its bite.
The swimmer appeared calm when she walked up to a lifeguard station in Boca Raton, Fla. on Sunday afternoon with a shark firmly clamped on her arm. This shark stayed latched on to this woman after it sunk its teeth into her arm – even after it died.
One witness, Nate Pachter, even said that he saw people “holding the shark by its tail”.
This is the story of a shark who became quite attached – to a woman’s arm. “So it wouldn’t bite them if they hadn’t been messing with it”, Patrick explained. “It’s nothing we’ve ever had before”, Lemmons added, saying the department is trained to handle all sorts of situations.
Last year, three out of 10 shark attacks worldwide took place in Florida, which, as we have previously noted, is a magnet for sharks.
They usually bite if they’re stepped on or if they’re bothered by divers, who assume they’re harmless.
Nurse sharks can grow up to 14 feet, are slow-moving and have typically strong jaws filled with razor-sharp, serrated teeth, which are used to crush shellfish and corals.
“She basically killed the shark”.
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Drop This Fact: There were 98 unprovoked shark attacks worldwide in 2015, far surpassing the old record of 88, set in 2000.
