A Florida paddleboarder escaped without injury after she was followed by a hammerhead shark more than 35 miles off the coast of Palm Beach County.
Malea Tribble, who told FOX 35 she at first dismissed the “taps” she felt on the bottom of her board, said her husband Ricky, who was in a nearby boat, first spotted the shark.
“Based on his reaction, I knew immediately that it was a shark,” Tribble, who said she was about 30 feet from the boat when the shark was spotted, told the station. “I didn’t know how big or where exactly it was.”
She said her husband calmly guided her to the boat.
“I never knew I had it in me to be that calm,” Tribble added. “Just crazy to think about it all after the fact.”
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Tribble said she didn’t realize how close the shark was until she watched the video later.
On Monday, a 12-year-old girl swimming in Cocoa Beach survived being bitten by a shark.
“Right when I got out of the water, I just started screaming because I knew that it wasn’t good,” Magnolia Woodhead, who received 50 stitches, told FOX 35.
Woodhead was visiting the state from Pennsylvania and said she doesn’t plan to head back into the water anytime soon.