A woman was immersed in the awe of a reef teeming with life when she slammed into “something” during her snorkeling venture.

“When I turned to my right to see what I had bumped into, I was face to face with a shark,” North Carolina resident Tiffany Johnson told Fox News Digital about the 2017 attack in the Bahamas.

“The bump I felt was when it had literally grabbed onto my arm, so my arm was in his mouth.”

She overcame the sinking feeling of giving up, fought back and finally freed herself, but the shark “completely severed” her arm and left her with “a mangled stump.”

She overcame the sinking feeling of giving up, fought back and finally freed herself, but the shark “completely severed” her arm and left her with “a mangled stump.”

And “that’s when it was on for him,” she said. “The shark began to fight and thrash. I’m screaming through my snorkel, but you really can’t utter words. You’ve got the snorkel tube in your mouth.”

No one on the boat knew she was wrestling with death.

She kept fighting, and “One of the times, I yanked his jaws open, and my arm kind of just flies out, and I look down, and it’s gone.”

All that was left was her shoulder and about three-to-five inches of her upper arm.

The entire attack happened like a snap of the finger.

Johnson and her husband were snorkeling during a cruise excursion – ironically off Paradise Island – when her husband became sick to his stomach.

Within 10 minutes of leaving the water, he threw up on the boat, medical staff tended to him, and the shark snapped Johnson’s arm off.

After freeing herself, she was on the surface. She tossed her snorkel and screamed. Her husband heard her desperate pleas for help and rushed to her aid.

Within 10 minutes of leaving the water, he threw up on the boat, medical staff tended to him, and the shark snapped Johnson’s arm off.

There were gaps in her memory from the attack, so she relied on her husband’s recollection to fill in the blanks.

“He said he turned and saw me. I had started to swim back, and I had put my injured arm up out of the water,” Johnson said.

“It was literally spewing blood everywhere. And that was the sight he saw, and I remember locking eyes with him.

“The terror on his face was something I’ve never seen before, and he just screamed out, ‘Baby,’ and jumped in the water as I’m trying to get to that boat.”

At that point, no one had eyes on the shark.

Johnson remembered being “laser focused” on the boat and said she “felt like it was right behind me.”

“I was praying the whole time, ‘God get me to that boat,’” Johnson said. “My husband met me in the water. I had made it most of the way on my own, and he took me the last 10 feet or so.”