Two friends have spoken out after being attacked by a shark while holidaying in the Bahamas.
Rileigh Decker and Summer Layman have both returned to the United States after a nightmare vacation in which the animal bit them off the coast of Bimini Bay.
Speaking to Good Morning America, Decker said that the pair “were swimming to the ladder, and I kind of felt something nudge my leg. We kept swimming, and then I felt a tug on my leg. And I knew right then and there that I was bit.” She suffered a bite on both her tibia bone and Achilles tendon.
“It was very scary” she added, “the fear of like thinking, you know, you’re gonna die in the moment… All we can do now is just be very grateful that we’re still here because it could have ended very differently,” she said.
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The injured Summer, who has a background in medicine, was dragged back onto the boat while she directed a friend to wrap a towel around her leg with a rope above her knee for a tourniquet until first responders arrived on the scene. “If they weren’t there, we wouldn’t be here,” Decker admitted about her family and friends who were present on the boat. “I’m just very grateful for all of them.”
Decker has had two surgeries on her leg so far, and will likely need at least a third, her family said.
Layman was also bitten: “we both were panicking in that moment” she said. “I didn’t realise I got bit until they started screaming that my foot was, like, shredded and there was just blood everywhere.”
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The pair believe that they were bitten by a Bull Shark, one of the most powerful of all shark species and one that inhabits coastal waters. Despite their reputation as a fearsome hunter, attacks on humans are rare. It is estimated that 100 million sharks are killed each year by humans, which is about 274,000 sharks per day.
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