Anatomy of a Shark Bite: The Teeth Aren't the Only Thing That's Deadly

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Amy Tatsch was boogie boarding off the coast of Florida less than three months ago when she felt something bump her right leg. Hard.

Just as it registered that there was a shark in the waist-deep water with her, she felt razor-sharp teeth rip away half of her calf.

I really didnt think I was going to make it back out with the amount of blood I saw, the 38-year-old mother of six told ABC News. I thought I would end up passing out, or I thought the shark was going to come back and attack me and my brother.

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Tatsch, whose 2-year-old twins were with her family on the beach, never saw the shark that bit her, but the rare encounter left her lower right leg almost unrecognizable. The bite had gone down to the bone. A shark expert later determined from the wound that it was a 6-foot bull shark that had attacked her.

Somehow, she caught a wave into shore and shouted for help. She remembers being rushed to the hospital, but the next 13 days were a blur, she said. As she soon find out, the trauma from the razor-sharp teeth is just the beginning of why shark bites can be deadly.

Courtesy of Health First

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Anatomy of a Shark Bite: The Teeth Aren't the Only Thing That's Deadly