Girl Fights Off Shark Attack – A 14-year-old New Zealand girl managed to fight off an attacking shark with her boogie board.
Teenager Lydia Ward was attacked after stepping on a “big, gray, slippery thing” while wading in waist-high water off the southern city of Invercargill, New Zealand.
The shark wrapped its jaws around her waist and bit her, but let go after she whacked it with the boogie board on its snout, she told the New Zealand Herald.
Fiona Ward, Lydia’s mother said, “She’s a really cool-headed little girl. There was no screaming or anything, or hysterics. She just came up to the car, she looked a bit shaky, and she said, ‘oh, I’ve just been attacked by a shark. And I was like, ‘What?’”
L:ydia added, “I showed Dad and he didn’t really believe me but then I showed him my wetsuit with all the blood coming out and he believed me.”
The teenaged girl managed to escape serious injury, but was treated in a local hospital for two of the deeper puncture wounds.
She has no plans to return to the ocean any time soon.
“It sort of put me off the beach, but I’m still fine with rivers and lakes,” Lydia said. “I’ll stick to them now.”
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February 3rd, 2010 at 1:25 pm
I am so scared of sharks
February 10th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
I can’t believe someone could take on a shark like that