Destin, Fla.
Florida beachgoers were in a panic this week after two teenagers were mauled by sharks in separate attacks in the Gulf of Mexico. Jamie Marie Daigle, a 14-year-old tourist from Louisiana, was paddling on a boogie board 100 yards from shore when a 6-foot bull shark attacked, tearing off her left thigh. A surfer, Tim Dicus, pulled the unconscious girl onto his board as the shark circled back. Dicus then fought off the shark by punching its nose. “The shark kept coming back around,” Dicus said. “I’ve never been so scared in my life. It was like the movie Jaws except I was in it.” Daigle later died from blood loss. Two days later, a teenage boy fishing in knee-deep water off another beach on the Gulf was attacked by a shark. His right leg was so badly mauled doctors had to amputate it.
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