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Shark Attacks Woman In Less Than 2 Feet Of Water

POSTED: Monday, June 4, 2007
UPDATED: 11:38 am EDT June 4, 2007

A large bull shark attacked and injured a woman as she stood in less than 2 feet of water at a South Carolina beach.


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Susan Dornquast, who is from Texas, said she was standing near shore at Murrells Inlet in South Carolina when the shark came out of the water and bit her leg.

"I just turned around to look at the waves coming in and that is when the shark came up," Dornquast said. "I felt it hit my leg and thought that was more than water. I looked down and saw the shark swimming off.

Dornquast said she knew the shark bit her after she had trouble moving her leg.

She was taken to a hospital, where she received 40 stitches, the report said.

From the size of the bite mark left on Dornquast, doctors estimate the shark was 5 feet long.

"I could not imagine (a shark) that big coming up to shore like that," Dornquast said. "I didn't know that much about sharks."

"Sharks, especially like the bull sharks we have here, tend to feed in shallow water," marine biologist Paula Branshaw said. "Usually (the bites) are a case of mistaken identity."

Marine biologists said the chances of being attacked by a shark are 1 in 11.5 million.

Last year, there were 23 shark bites in Florida, according to the University of Florida.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

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