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EMERALD ISLE — Strong had just arrived for vacation with her parents and was swimming in about 4 feet of water near the 6600 block of Ocean Drive around 5 p.m. while her family unpacked the car. She was in the water for about five minutes before something bit her leg. She got out of the water on her own.
Although Strong suffered no broken bones, Mary Metzler, chief of Emerald Isle Emergency Medical Services, said the bite caused “massive damage.”
“It grabbed her from the back of her calf,” Metzler said Sunday. “You could see the bite marks pretty well.
“The back of her calf was pretty well chewed.”