BOSTON (WHDH) - A woman on a Myrtle Beach vacation had a scary encounter in the water.
Karen Sites was bit by a shark in waist-deep water on a family vacation. The shark latched onto Sites’s arm while her 8-year-old grandson Brian was only around 10 feet away.
Sites struggled to get the shark off her arm. When she did, the bite sent her to the hospital, where she underwent surgery and received hundreds of stitches.
Though Sites won’t let the incident scare her from going back in the water, her grandson is hesitant to take a dip anytime soon.
“I’m sitting on the sand, but I’m not going in the water,” Brian said.
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