The 73-year-old scuba diver was climbing back onto a boat in the Bahamas on June 7 when the shark jumped out. 'There was blood everywhere,' she told an Iowa newspaper.
Heidi Ernst, has recalled the terrifying moment a shark got hold of her leg and started shaking from side to side trying to bite it off. The 73-year-old scuba diver, who has more than 500 dives under her belt over the past 11 years, was climbing back onto a boat after a dive in the Bahamas on June 7 when the shark jumped out of the water and took hold. Ernst toldshe was quickly able to hit the shark and it let go.
“There was blood everywhere,” she said. “I was dying. I was going to bleed to death. I was afraid I was going to die and was in severe pain.” “They were very instrumental in keeping me alive,” she said. “Everybody was.” Ernst made the decision with her doctors to amputate her leg from the shin down. Friends have started afor the woman, calling her “fearless, kind, gentle, giving, honest” and a “wonderful friend.
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