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John Emory never imagined that he could be attacked by a shark while standing in only three feet of water in the ocean. The civil contractor, who works for the United States government, was spear fishing together with a friend who is an ex-diver for the Navy. Suddenly, while his friend was diving, Emory, who was close to the shore, felt a great amount of water rush up at him.

“I thought it was simply a sudden surge, when instantly I felt as if I had been hit by a car or struck by a baseball bat on the leg. That’s when I realized that a shark had attacked me and held my left leg between its jaws to devour me. I punched its head with all my might, but it was as if I’d hit concrete covered in sandpaper,” he says.

Emory goes on to say that in his case, there was a lot of blood in the water, and the shark actually retreated some distance away, lying in wait. His friend came to his aid, passing close to the shark without being attacked by it. Once outside the water he helped Emory apply a tourniquet, using a belt to try to contain the hemorrhaging a bit.

“The wound was very big, I was bleeding, my blood pressure dropped very much, and I thought I was going to die. I felt as if I were dreaming, as if all that was a nightmare”, says Emory.

With the help of his friend and others, the injured man was retrieved from the water and transported by speedboat to the local military hospital.

“I was stabilized at the hospital, but I thought I would lose my leg. The wound was very deep. They told me later that you could see my bone”, Emory remembers. “Luckily, I was transferred by jet to Fort Lauderdale, Florida where an ambulance drove me to the Aventura Hospital. There, they miraculously saved me”, the patient assures.

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