Trent Trentacosta was swimming with his family in Lake Pontchartrain LA Friday, when a bull shark bit his ankle. The seven year old was out sailing with his family on a clear day. The conditions were so calm, the family decided to drop anchor ans take a dip.
Trent’s mother Shelly Trentacosta told NOLA.com “The kids were bunched up together playing, and Trent just started screaming. We started swimming to him, and I didn’t know what was going on. I grabbed his leg, and there was a lot of blood.”
They rushed the seven year old to a local Urgent care center where they were informed Trent had been bitten by a shark.
Mrs. Trentacosta added He(Trent) said that when he was swimming, something bumped him from the back. He turned around to look, and then he felt it swim around to the front of him, and when he turned again, it charged at him.”
Mitchell Chevalier, with the University of New Orleans and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, viewed the photos of Trent’s bite and said
“Without a doubt, it’s a bull shark — probably around 5 feet.”
Trent’s prognosis is great and he should be back to full force very soon.
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