‘I thought I kicked a rock’: Surfer describes the moment he was bitten by shark

He was having fun with his time along with his associates at Nathaniel Reed Wildlife Refuge Beach in Hobe Sound, Florida when the waves knocked him off his board.

“I was getting back on my board, and my arms were over the board. And I think I was kicking to get back up on the board,” Krebs mentioned.

“I thought I kicked a rock, or something, and all of a sudden, there was the bite. And then two seconds later, it was done.”

“I knew right away when it happened, I knew it was a bite. I yelled, ‘shark bite’ to my friends, and Dave said, ‘what?’ and I said, ‘shark bite!'”

Krebs was about 100 yards away from shore and swam as quick as he might with out trying again.

“I did not need to take a look at it,” he said.

He remembers an off-duty firefighter was additionally on the seaside, who quickly rushed to assist him.

“I passed out apparently in the ambulance, I think my blood pressure dropped,” Krebs mentioned. “It wasn’t really painful until I got in the ambulance.”

He was then rushed to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida the place Dr. Faris Azar, a trauma surgeon, jumped in.

“The shark basically took a bite of the entire foot, it seems like slowly released and ultimately took the slow toe off of the end,” Azar mentioned.

Medical consultants mentioned they’ve about 5 to 10 shark chew instances a 12 months that they have an inclination to at St. Mary’s.

“He was probably bit by about a four-foot black-tip shark. Had it been a bull shark or something like that he probably wouldn’t have a foot,” he mentioned.

“Control blood loss, bleeding is ultimately the biggest problem when it comes to mortality. You need to survive the shark’s teeth to be able to deal with the aftereffects. The aftereffects we’re most concerned about is infection.”

Azar mentioned analysis at St. Mary’s Medical Center over the past decade helped them deal with the simplest antibiotics to assist shark chew victims.

As for Krebs, it is going to take a few months for him to get again out on the waters. He says he appears ahead to that day.

“I am grateful to be here, and the results had things been slightly different, maybe I wouldn’t be here,” he mentioned.

“You absolutely should not worry about getting bit by a shark. But, avoid situations where it’s more likely to happen,” Jim Abernathy, a shark conservationist, mentioned.

“If there’s bait fish in the water, don’t go in the water. Because there’s definitely predators that are trying to eat that bait fish, which is very difficult for sharks.

“They lunge at big bait not understanding what they are going to truly get.”

“Avoid the misconceptions which might be posted at locations like fishing piers. They’re huge indicators up there saying no shark fishing. So, the shark indicators imply completely nothing, they usually catch sharks there on a regular basis,” he said.