Alex Stamm, 16, Attacked on July 25th 2010
16 year old Alex Stamm was in water that was somewhere between four feet deep and waist level when he was bitten by a shark off of Isle Of Palms in South Carolina. He was playing football in the water and felt the bite. He then saw the tail as the fish swim away. He was transported to a nearby hospital in an ambulance and received 40 stitches to close his wounds.
Mr. Stamm believes the shark was a sandbar shark and that it was about 4 feet long.
Mr. Stamm jokes that karma is catching up with him. Last year he was in a bicycle crash and he jokingly told people it was a shark attack.
No mention was made as to the water conditions, nor time of attack.
References:
13 WHTR
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