A 17-year-old girl has spoken out after a shark bit her leg off several weeks ago near a North Carolina beach.
Paige Winter was swimming with her father at Fort Macon State Park when she went below the surface of the water, said Charlie Winter, her dad.
Winter, meanwhile, said in a video provided by Vidant Medical Center on June 14, that she “is alright” after the attack.
In the attack, she lost part of her left leg and several fingers.
“I think with this situation I can transform it. It isn’t something like, ‘Oh, how tragic, a 17-year-old lost a leg.’ No, a 17-year-old lost a leg and we’re poppin',” she said in the video.
“Thank you to the care team at Vidant Medical Center who is continuing to provide excellent care. I know I have a long road to recovery, which includes additional surgeries. I will continue to stay positive and be thankful that it was not worse.”
Fatal Attack
A 65-year-old retired optometrist was identified as the victim of a fatal shark attack while he was swimming in Maui, Hawaii, on May 25.First responders pulled him from the water, but they couldn’t resuscitate him.
“As we got closer, I saw some blood on his stomach and then I got looking a little bit more, and his wrist—it looked like the skin on his wrist was just torn off,” witness Allison Keller said. “And then I got looking closer, and his entire left leg from his knee down was just missing.”
Smiley leaves behind his wife, three children, and grandchildren.
Longtime friend Gary Taxera told the news outlet, “He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time doing something in a place he loved.”
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