NewsUSAA shark bites the face of a 13-year-old boy who was fishing lobsters with his family in Florida

A shark bites the face of a 13-year-old boy who was fishing lobsters with his family in Florida

Miami A 13-year-old boy who fished for lobsters with his family in the waters of the Florida Keys was bitten by a shark and had to receive ten stitches in one lip at a hospital, local media reported Tuesday.

Fischer Hricko was with his family on vacation in the Florida Keys, in the extreme south of the state, enjoying a day of lobster fishing this mini-season when he was attacked by a nurse shark, a species that is not usually aggressive, which bit him in the face.

The boy told the News6 channel that he was rising to the surface after capturing a lobster with a net when he felt a push on his leg: “When I had the lobster in my hand I felt a small bump on the back of one leg, I looked back and the shark was already in my face”.

the teenager’s mother, Rhiannonwas piloting the boat when he heard his son scream on the surface “Mom, mom, a shark! Get me out of here, get me out of the water!”

“It was the scariest five minutes of my life. Just hearing that terror in my son’s voice… it’s something I can’t get out of my head.”says the mother.

Hricko and his father, who was also lobster fishing, managed to get into the boat and the mother hurried to the dock to take her son to the hospital.

Fischer told the outlet that he will not let this horror experience ruin his love of the sea: “I’m ready, but I feel like the first few times I’ll be a little scared, but I’ll get in the water”.

According to the Tracking Sharks page, as of last Monday, 55 shark bites have been recorded worldwide this year, 6 of them fatal.

In the United States, with 31 shark attacks, the state of Florida is the one with the most recorded (18), followed by New York (6) and South Carolina (3).

The International Shark Attack File (ISAF), an entity of the University of Florida that is considered the highest world authority on the subject, published its annual report last January, which states that nine people lost their lives in 2021 from “unprovoked” shark bites.

ISAF investigated 137 suspected human-shark interactions recorded worldwide in 2021 and confirmed 73 unprovoked and 39 provoked shark bites on humans.

In 2021 there were 28 cases in Florida, which means 38% of the total that occurred that year worldwide, when there were a total of 73 unprovoked cases, of which nine were fatal, and 39 provoked.

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