A man jumped into the ocean to rescue his wife after a shark took a chunk out her leg in Florida.
Luke Bruns dived from their boat into the sea after Lindsay Bruns was attacked by the predator and left with a serious wound running from the top of her hip to just above her knee.
The 35-year-old mother of two from Texas, was on a break in Florida Keys along with her partner and two daughters, aged five and seven, when the frightening incident happened on June 29.
She was taken to hospital, where doctors are fighting to save her leg, reports the Daily Star.
“All things considered, she is doing very well,” said Luke. “The trauma team is hopeful for a full recovery,” he added of Lindsay, who has had 11 blood transfusions and three surgeries.
“They have reconstructed all of her muscle and tissue on her leg,” Luke said. “We are now just waiting to see if it all survives. So far it is looking good.“
The mother jumped off the boat’s top platform multiple times into the water.
Then she did a flip but afterwards, Luke heard a splash that was too big to be made by her and rushed to check it out.
He was greeted by blood in the water and his wife emerging from the depths and screaming for help.
Luke heroically leapt in and helped her to the boat’s ladder and onto the pontoon. “He saw the large wound on her right leg, consistent with a shark attack,” a report said.
Reports suggested that the victim had blood squirting from her leg, which Luke used some rope to create a makeshift tourniquet to try to stop the bleeding.
“It appeared to be from a serrated impact, and there were puncture marks on her thigh, consistent with a shark attack,” wrote Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Officer Christopher Boley.
FWC didn’t confirm what type of shark bit Bruns.
“We feel very blessed that she survived,” Luke said.
Meanwhile, in the UK, two sailors got the shock of their lives by a popular Welsh beach when they spotted the fin of a huge shark looming in front of them.
In what appeared like a scene from the film Jaws, footage shows the shark suddenly come into sight and start lurking around the bay in Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
Alex Brace, a member of a local sailing club, was out at sea with a friend on Wednesday night for what they thought would be a routine sail when they saw the shark on the return to the harbour, reported WalesOnline.
