The girl's firefighter brother managed to fight off the shark before dragging her to a stranger's boat and then applying a tourniquet to stem the blood loss.
Rhett Willingham saved his sister Addison Bethea from a shark attack off the coast of Florida. Pic: Tallahassee Memorial HealthCareA teenage girl has been seriously injured in a shark attack off Florida's north-western coast but is expected to survive, according to the authorities.
Addison Bethea, 17, had been hunting for scallops on the coast off the Keaton Beach when a shark wrapped its jaws around her thigh. The shark was aggressive and attacked her several times, with Addison poking and punching at its eyes before her brother separated her from it and pulled her onto a stranger's boat.
Her brother, Rhett Willingham - who is a firefighter and emergency medical technician - then applied a tourniquet to her leg to stem the blood loss. Ms Bethea suffered"serious injuries" in the attack and had to be airlifted to the trauma and emergency centre at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare , about 70 miles from the beach.Doctors told her family members that her leg was extensively damaged in the attack, with TMH describing it as"devastating damage to the soft tissue in her right leg".
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