Inspiration
Bitten by Shark, 10-year-old Saves Her Friend’s Life
Heroism is what truly defines this 10-year-old girl from Florida, who despite being attacked by a shark while swimming, hobbled her way out to rescue her 6-year-old friend who was also swimming close-by.
While swimming around and having
Heroism is what truly defines this 10-year-old girl from Florida, who despite being attacked by a shark while swimming, hobbled her way out to rescue her 6-year-old friend who was also swimming close-by.
While swimming around and having fun with her friend at Jacksonville Beach, Kaley Szarmarck felt intense pain in the right leg. At first, she thought that a crab was holding on to her but was horrified when looked down and saw a 3-foot-long shark.
The first instinct was to run out of water, but the girl, call her courageous without a doubt, seeing her friend still playing in the water waded her way back to danger zone to get the her out of it.
Like daddy like daughter.
Yeah, the proud daddy is a firefighter and keeps staking his life time and again to save people. The daughter seems to be following suit. Describing the event, her father Dave Szarmack says, “She turned and yelled to her friend get out of the water! It's a shark! So this little girl ran, a friend of our daughters, to go get the moms. And Kaley walked herself out of the ocean. And she realized the six-year-old was still in the water. So she turned around and went back and got the six-year-old and took her out of the water. She pulled the little girl back out of the water.”
He goes on say how this incident had left him scared, how parenting differs, saying, “You see all kinds of things as a fireman, but when you see your baby, even if it was a little blood, but this was, to see it, I was just, it was really difficult to see. It was just tough. That's my little girl.”