11 year old boy snorkeling in Florida Keys (USA) bitten by one shark and had to be taken to a hospital where part of a leg had to be amputated.This is the second recent amputation of the limb due to a shark attack in this state.
Jameson Reeder Jr. Last Saturday, while snorkeling with his family in the shallow waters of a reef in the state’s southernmost Florida Keys, he was attacked by a bull shark, probably about two feet long. Uncle Joshua Reeder on social media. that shark biting the little one just below the knee cause serious bleeding; However, his uncle said, “Miraculously, he managed to survive despite his pain and cries for help.”
According to local media reports on Monday, the family pulled the young man out of the water, put him in the boat and put a tourniquet on his leg to stop the bleeding. Coincidentally, there was a woman on a nearby boat who was a nurse helping the little boy with first aid, and the doctors had no choice before they were airlifted to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami. cut off part of the leg. “They had to amputate part of his leg just below the knee to save his life as it was inoperable due to the damage caused by the shark,” Joshua Reeder wrote in a Facebook post. The boy’s uncle said his nephew was “coming out of surgery and resting and now has learned the story of what happened to him”.
This is the second case of a minor’s leg amputation in Florida in just two months. On June 30, 17-year-old Addison Bethea survived a shark attack in Keaton Beach in the northwest state, but suffered a partial amputation of her leg, as did Jameson Reeder.
As of August 8, 57 shark bites have been recorded worldwide this year, 6 of them fatal, according to the Watch Sharks page. In the United States, where there are 31 shark attacks, according to this organization, the most recorded states are Florida (18), followed by New York (6) and South Carolina (3).
The International File on Shark Attacks (ISAF), affiliated with the University of Florida and considered the highest world authority on the subject, stated in its annual report published last January, that nine people died in 2021 due to “unprovoked” sharks. bites. There were 28 cases in Florida in 2021, which is 38% of the total cases that occurred worldwide that year.