08/08/2007 Ashley Silverman (Florida)
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:46 pm
Woman in surgery after apparent shark attackeberas@MiamiHerald.com
AL DIAZ / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Ashley Silverman, 19, was on a boat in the Keys Tuesday afternoon when she decided to jump into the water and cool off. Immediately she felt something gnawing on her arm.
I saw my bone', said shark victim
A Jacksonville woman was undergoing surgery Wednesday for injuries she received in an encounter with a shark in Monroe County waters.
Ashley Silverman, 19, was on a boat in the Keys Tuesday afternoon when she decided to jump into the water and cool off. Immediately she felt something gnawing on her arm.
Silverman began screaming and thrashing.
Silverman's boyfriend Christopher Wood, with whom she had been vacationing, jumped into the water and pulled her out.
She was taken to Mariners Hospital in the Keys, and then airlifted to Baptist Health South in Kendall.
Surgery was taking place Wednesday afternoon.
Although Silverman did not get a good look at the fish that attacked her, Dr. Randy Miller, who was performing the surgery, said the gashes on her right arm appeared to match wounds inflicted by a shark, possibly a bull shark.
Miller said he handles about four shark-bite cases a year.
He said the gash is 20 centimeters long and eight centimeters wide.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breakin ... 96615.html
AL DIAZ / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Ashley Silverman, 19, was on a boat in the Keys Tuesday afternoon when she decided to jump into the water and cool off. Immediately she felt something gnawing on her arm.
I saw my bone', said shark victim
A Jacksonville woman was undergoing surgery Wednesday for injuries she received in an encounter with a shark in Monroe County waters.
Ashley Silverman, 19, was on a boat in the Keys Tuesday afternoon when she decided to jump into the water and cool off. Immediately she felt something gnawing on her arm.
Silverman began screaming and thrashing.
Silverman's boyfriend Christopher Wood, with whom she had been vacationing, jumped into the water and pulled her out.
She was taken to Mariners Hospital in the Keys, and then airlifted to Baptist Health South in Kendall.
Surgery was taking place Wednesday afternoon.
Although Silverman did not get a good look at the fish that attacked her, Dr. Randy Miller, who was performing the surgery, said the gashes on her right arm appeared to match wounds inflicted by a shark, possibly a bull shark.
Miller said he handles about four shark-bite cases a year.
He said the gash is 20 centimeters long and eight centimeters wide.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breakin ... 96615.html