A man on spring break believes he was bitten by a shark in Florida, on March 11.
Daniel Kenny was playing in the waist deep water around 3:30 pm off Vero Beach when he was bitten twice on the right foot.
The 19-year-old told WCVB5 “I think I screamed and then I took a couple of steps to run and then it bit me again. That’s when I screamed, I’m bit, I’m bit!”
The Boston College sophmore was taken to the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute in Fort Pierce. Emergency personal cleaned and dressed his wounds so he could fly back to Boston for surgery.
Once he arrived back in Boston, he had surgery to repair his damaged Achilles tendon at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital.
During surgery, Dr. Robert Nascimento removed a small piece of shark tooth from the wound. He said “Everybody in the [operating room] was cheering. People were coming in, looking at it because this isn’t something you see every day. A piece of shark tooth sitting inside of somebody’s ankle.”
Kenny was excited the tooth fragment was found. He said “I was happy the tooth was there, because it’s a little bit of proof. Nobody believes me!”
The location has been marked on the 2016 shark attack bites tracking map.
