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A 13-year-old boy was bitten by a shark in Georgia after he and his pals reeled it in while fishing — only for it to sink its teeth into his thigh as they tried to unhook it, according to reports.
The teen was on a boat with two others and his dad near Ossabaw Island, about 20 miles south of Savannah, Wednesday afternoon when he was bitten by the nearly six-foot marine predator, a horrified witness told WTOC.
“I was sitting right here reading a book on the back of the boat and we saw a boat coming up and we could tell from a distance that there was trauma going on,” boater Terry Tatum said, adding that the boat docked in front of her and the child’s father was frantically seeking help.
“I went to the boat and saw three teenagers on the boat and a traumatic scene,” she continued.
“They told me that they were fishing. They caught a large shark, five or six feet, and tried to unhook it and the shark latched onto the young man’s right thigh and I got the first aid kit and assisted.”
McIntosh County EMS volunteer BJ Comer told the outlet that she heard the commotion and sprinted to her car to grab her emergency kit, thinking she would need to make a tourniquet, but by the time she returned with a coworker, the ambulance had arrived.
The boy was bitten on the upper thigh, according to dispatch audio from a 3:51 p.m. call obtained by WJCL.
“This is going to be in reference to a 13-year-old male that was bit by a shark on the upper thigh,” the dispatcher could be heard saying, adding that EMS was sent to assist the Coast Guard.
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“Coast Guard advised 10-minute ETA.”
The Coast Guard sector in Charleston raced to the scene around 4:06 p.m., officials told The Post.
Watchstanders quickly coordinated with Liberty County EMS to meet the boat at the Sunbury Crab Docks, where the teen was rushed to a local hospital.
His condition is unknown at this time.
Local authorities did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.