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Surfer recovers from shark attack LOS ANGELES, (AFP) A surfer recovered Friday in hospital from a shark attack nearly cost her her leg, but she vowed to surf northern California beaches again. Megan Halavais, 20, was running the waves on Wednesday on the beach at Salmon Creek in Sonoma county when she felt a shark bite her leg. "I looked back and it was like, huge, straight out of 'Jaws.' (It) came up from behind me, chomp! I just turned right away, and I was like, 'Shark!' It was huge. It was like twice the size of me. Huge fin, like, the fin was as tall as me. It wasn't like, 'I have to fight for my life,' It was like, 'Whoa, ahh, what's going on?'" Halavais said during a news conference at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital on Thursday with her leg in a bandage. "I barely remember. I remember grabbing the shark. I don't remember going underwater." Halavais, of Santa Rosa, was helped by other surfers who pulled her from the water. The woman was taken to the hospital with wound from her upper thigh to her calf. Doctors said she was in good condition. "I just actually looked at it for the first time right now, they just changed my dressing," she said. "It's just like you think about it, but you don't think it's gonna happen to you," she said. "Well, I figure, it's happened once, it won't happen again." "Plus, if I get bit twice, it's Guinness Book of World Records." "A 16-foot shark, if it meant to eat me, it would have. It was just
tasting She plans to leave hospital next week. |
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