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Just minutes after Susan Dornquast and her husband posed for a picture standing knee-deep in the ocean off Garden City Beach, a 5-foot shark mauled her right calf.

Susan Dornquast was standing alone in the water after Donald Dornquast returned to shore to assist a cousin with the camera about 4 p.m. Saturday.

"I just kind of turned around to watch the ocean waves come in, and that's when the shark hit me," Susan Dornquast said Thursday from Fort Worth, Texas.

At the time of the attack, she was in town visiting cousin Barbara Wyman of Darlington.

"I felt him hit my left leg, and I seen him scurry off, and that's when I knew he got my other leg."

Dornquast said she didn't see the shark coming.

"All I seen was the bubbles from the water," she said.

Dornquast described the animal as having a grayish color.

"I didn't see a fin or nothing on the shark," she said. "It went away fast."

Dornquast said she started toward shore before falling into the water.

"I was crawling, trying to get away because I was scared the shark would come back," she said. "I never let out a big scream or nothing. I just kept yelling, 'Don, Don, Come get me! I was hit by a shark!'"

Wyman said she and Donald Dornquast could tell Susan Dornquast was distressed.

"You could tell by her face that it was something out of the ordinary," Wyman said.

Donald Dornquast ran to his wife in the water and, with the help of another man, carried her back to shore.

"I was just hoping and praying that she would have a leg," said Donald Dornquast. "Getting hit by a shark, you always hear about how they take the whole thing."

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