This guy got seriously lucky!
A 40-year-old man was spearfishing off the coast of Miami over the weekend and was bitten by a shark. Thankfully, the story doesn't end there. When the man surfaced, he was rescued by a boat full of nurses!
Cell phone video shows the man being helped into the boat, followed by the nurses jumping into action to assist the bleeding man.
The bites were so severe that the man's arm was "mangled" and he was "just blood from arm to foot."
The nurses immediately applied a tourniquet to the man's arm while a fisherman from a nearby charter boat rinsed him off with a hose.
"He was wearing a wet suit, but he had bite marks in about three different places," one of the nurses told ABC News. "He had muscle and skin hanging off. The teeth marks were in his hand and skin was hanging off. There was quite a lot of blood."
Sounds pretty gnarly, but the man was transported to a hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.
There is cell phone video of the incident below. WARNING, the video contains a lot of blood. Don't watch if you're not ok with seeing that. But I'm posting it because I'm completely amazed at how calm and professional the nurses all are. They weren't in work-mode. They were all on vacation and not expecting to have to deal with a medical emergency, but the jumped into action without hesitating and worked as a team to help a complete stranger.
Nurses are AWESOME!
[ABC News]
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The first two videos are from local news stations and are edited. The third video is unedited and the most graphic. Don't watch that one if you don't want to see blood.