00:00:12boyfriend Johnny hit the beach at salmon
00:00:14creek near the small fishing village of
00:00:17bodega bay
00:00:19on that day the weather is calm the
00:00:22water glassy and the waves cresting at
00:00:2510 feet
00:00:28we just hide down the beach because we
00:00:30saw three of our friends our out in the
00:00:32water down there really good better than
00:00:34anywhere else
00:00:38they paddle out 200 yards to join a pack
00:00:41of surfers but Megan decides to paddle
00:00:44out another 20 feet
00:00:52I was sitting a little bit north of the
00:00:54pack just because there’s a wave there I
00:00:56liked better than the waves they were
00:00:58surfing
00:00:59I was alone sitting there and I started
00:01:03to get just like a eerie feeling almost
00:01:07like warm tingles in my spine
00:01:22right as I took one stroke in the water
00:01:25this shark just came out of the water
00:01:27hit me
00:01:30a massive great white shark sinks its
00:01:33teeth into Megan’s thigh one wrong move
00:01:36and she’ll lose her leg or worse I was
00:01:39just pushing myself away from it almost
00:01:42feeling like I was pushing down on it
00:01:44but it was only I couldn’t move that it
00:01:46can do anything the shark
00:01:49let’s go but Megan’s not out of danger
00:01:51she screams for help attracting the
00:01:55attention of Britt horn a lifeguard
00:01:57surfing on his day off I turned saw the
00:02:01shark’s fin I knew it was a really big
00:02:04shark just from the size of fin it
00:02:05looked to be over two foot maybe three
00:02:07foot tall huge triangle the shark had
00:02:11rolled onto its side its Peck whole
00:02:14pectoral fin came out looking like
00:02:15elephant ears huge
00:02:24despite their fears Britt Megan’s
00:02:27boyfriend Johnny and other nearby
00:02:29surfers thrash through the waves to
00:02:31rescue Megan as soon as I saw the sucker
00:02:34shark and hit Megan and started paddling
00:02:37that direction I was afraid for myself
00:02:39and the other surfers I had no idea
00:02:41whether it was going to hit me or any of
00:02:43the other guys in the water with the
00:02:47sharks submerged Megan’s in shock would
00:02:50it attack again
00:02:53I reached my hand out and the next thing
00:02:55I remember I was coming up from
00:02:56underneath the water and I just grabbed
00:02:59on to Johnny’s back and they made a
00:03:01circle around me and we all paddled in
00:03:03together my whole thing was trying to
00:03:05keep everybody calm
00:03:06staying close to Megan back on shore
00:03:10Megan discovers the severity of the
00:03:13injuries to her leg I tried to put my
00:03:16feet down my whole leg just gave out and
00:03:19before I could fall they just like
00:03:21grabbed me and pulled me up the beach at
00:03:24that point my main concern was just
00:03:26keeping Megan’s level of consciousness
00:03:29up and alert and not letting her
00:03:31starting to spin down and go into shock
00:03:39Bodega Bay Fire Department paramedics
00:03:41raced to the scene
00:03:42a helicopter transports her to the
00:03:45hospital where doctors treat her
00:03:47injuries the shark bit deep into her
00:03:52right leg from her calf to her upper
00:03:54thigh based on the bite diameter of 19
00:03:57inches and the teeth in her spacing of
00:04:00two and a half inches in Megan’s
00:04:01surfboard experts estimate this great
00:04:04white is between 18 and 19 feet in
00:04:07length and over 4,000 pounds 2 tons the
00:04:14whole thing goes from here all the way
00:04:18down all the way down to my calf and
00:04:21that is the span of actually just the
00:04:25first 12 teeth of the shark’s mouth
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