12-Year-Old From Philadelphia Bitten By Shark While Swimming
What a time in the ocean! Especially the Atlantic Ocean. Sharks seem to be making it quite the place to be this summer. I’d like to use a joke here about there must be “something in the water” but that seems too cheesy. Obviously, everything that happened with the Titanic vessel over the last few years, then back in May, Maggie Drodz-Dowski, was surfing off Stone Harbor when she got several cuts on her foot, which officials said were consistent with a shark bite. “It didn’t hurt, but I felt pressure and all the teeth around the bottom of my foot. Like, my whole foot was in its mouth,” she said. “I heard her scream, and she was like under the water. And then, I thought she was drowning, and then she came back up, saying she got bit or something bit her,” her friend, Sarah O’Donnell, said. There were no lifeguards on duty, but Drodz-Dowski was able to get back to shore, where her friend’s mom called 911.
Let’s not forget how a shark almost jumped onto a fishing boat with a father/daughter a few weeks back! Then a 12 year from Philadelphia got bit in Florida. Magnolia Woodhead was swimming in Cocoa Beach when a shark latched onto her leg earlier this week. She says she was bit three times, leading to 50 stitches.
“It was just like so fast and aggressive it bit me three times in a row,” said Woodhead of Philadelphia. “And then I just like my first instinct was to push it off because it hurts so bad. I was just like, get away from me.”
I love the ocean and enjoy it so much, but I’ve always been of the thought, have fun, swim, boat, etc, but let’s remember it is the shark’s house. Can’t get that upset they have unannounced visitors.