A teenager who survived a shark attack in Florida this week has told how she tried to punch it on the nose after learning the technique from a nature TV documentary.
Addison Bethea, 17, was fishing for clams Thursday in just 5 feet of water off Keaton Beach when the 9-foot shark attacked. She has serious lacerations and had to have a second operation yesterday to save her leg.
Her escape comes after a 68-year-old Austrian woman was killed in a shark attack off the coast of Egypt. Reports said she died after losing an arm and possibly a leg in Sahl Hasheesh, a popular bay on the Red Sea coast, on Friday.
Bethea said Good morning America that she felt something closing in on her
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