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Woman, 45, sustains ‘significant trauma’ and has part of arm amputated, as two teens injured in second attack

Two separate shark attacks at Florida beaches wounded three swimmers, including two teenagers, prompting some popular vacation spots to temporarily close, according to authorities.

A shark bit a 45-year-old woman at about 1.20pm on Friday while she swam at Watersound beach, along the coast of Walton county, Florida, in the western part of the state.

First responders airlifted the woman to a hospital after she sustained “significant trauma” to her midsection, according to Walton county sheriff’s office spokesperson Corey Dobridnia, USA Today reported. Part of her left arm had to be amputated as a result of the attack.

In a second attack about 90 minutes later, two more people were injured by a shark at Inlet beach, just four miles (6.4km) from Watersound, WVTM 13 reported.

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

I used to live in the area. It's infested with sharks but they do their best to avoid people. Once, from my balcony, I saw a shark swim towards a group of little kids. It wasn't a huge shark...about four feet would be my guess. The thing was just "on patrol" for lack of a better term. When it got to about eight feet from the kids, it finally noticed them. That shark noped out to the open sea like a bullet.

The reason I say that I am not surprised is because of the large population of sharks in the area, how close they normally are to swimmers, and how the number of tourists keeps rapidly growing. It just seems to me like it is more of a 'when" rather than an "if" there will be a shark bite incident.

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