ABACO ISLAND (BAHAMAS)- A 34-year-old American tourist from Texas was attacked by a shark while swimming off Tahiti Beach on Abaco Island in the Bahamas.
The woman was swimming together with her husband while on their annual holiday, and were in no more than 8 feet of water when she suddenly said she was bitten by a shark.
“She was so calm that I thought she was kidding,” her husband told Local 10 News. “So I swam over there and she pulled herself up on the boat and she was missing half her back.”
The bite was so severe that Lacy Webb Martin fainted as she was being pulled back on the boat. Luckily there was a doctor on of the nearby boats who radioed the medics. The woman flown via Trinity Air Ambulance International to South Florida, where she arrived last night. She was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood.
She stayed calm during the whole thing. Doctors say that’s what kept her alive. After three weeks she will undergo extensive cosmetic surgery in her hometown of Dallas.
See all the shark attacks that have taken place of Abaco Island since 1958 on Shark Attack Data
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