'When I finally saw my hand, that's when I started freaking out.'
Damiana Humphrey, 19, told "Good Morning America" she was wading in the water about waist-deep when a 4 to 5-foot shark latched onto her hand."When I finally saw my hand, that's when I started freaking out," she told "GMA."Humphrey's father, Troy, also spoke to "GMA." "I noticed that she had her hand held up and that it was bleeding down her arm," he said."I severed four tendons.
"That shark was looking for food for prey, and in murky water, all they see is a flash of movement, and so that shark came in to investigate, and this was just a case of mistaken identity," Dr. Kelsey Banks, a research scientist at the Harte Research Institute, told "GMA."In Hawaii, a 25-year-old woman was taken to a hospital following a shark bite incident off Oahu’s North Shore on Friday at around 2 p.m. local time, the Honolulu Emergency Services reported.
"EMS responded to the Haleiwa Small Boat Harbor where the patient had been brought ashore. EMS treated her for multiple serious lacerations before transporting her to an emergency room," the agency stated.While experts and officials advised beachgoers to take precautions, including avoiding swimming at dusk or dawn, Damiana Humphrey said the shark attack hasn't stopped her from getting back in the water.
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