A surfer is healing from a bull shark bite off Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Stacy Davis was surfing with her husband near North First and North Second Street April 7. The waters were rather empty, with only one other surfer hitting waves about 500 feet yards away.
The couple was around 60 yards from the beach in about 10- to 12-feet-deep water. Davis was sitting upright on her board, about 15 feet away from her husband when a shark showed up.
“I was just sitting in my board having a good time thinking how beauti…F*CK a shark just bit my foot,” Davis told Tracking Sharks.
The shark grabbed her left foot and splashed around for a second before letting go.
“Then it breached, showing its beautiful dorsal fin right next to my board almost touching me. I yelled to my husband that I’d been bit and I thought it was bad.
“He told me to paddle towards him and we immediately caught a wave on our bellies together into shore as I had both my feet in the air on the back of my board,” she said.
The two made it to shore and called emergency services. An ambulance arrived on scene and transported Davis to Cape Canaveral hospital.
Doctors found an artery had been severed and a nerve torn. They were able to cauterize the artery and determine that Davis still had a large amount of movement in her foot.
After receiving about 100 stitches, an appointment was setup with a surgeon to determine if further surgery would be needed or if aggressive physical therapy will help with regaining full mobility.
Based on the dorsal fin and bite wound, Davis and her doctor determined that a 6-foot bull shark was the possible culprit.
Davis grew up surfing and won’t let the shark bite slow her down. She plans on getting back in the water as soon as possible.
The location of the incident has been marked on the 2020 Shark Attack Map.
