16 -year -old Colorado girl escaped the attack by two sharks during her vacation.
“I will never expect to be attacked by a shark, but I am here,” Annabel Carlson told NexStar’s Kdvr.
No one penny was attacked, but two, Carlson, who resides in Asbin and was on a family vacation in Blaze in August 2025 when that happened.
“We really liked to travel as a family, and that was like our large and fun vacation in the summer,” Carlson said.
Three days after the trip, Carlson and her mother covered 120 feet in the dark ocean, noting that her family loves to dive together, and they are accredited divers.
“Maybe there were three or four sharks that we saw,” Carlson said. “We also saw some of the really wonderful fish.”
After their diving adventure, Carlson and her mother on the boat returned to join Carlson’s sisters, who wanted to alternate to jump from the top of the deck.
“I decided to go first,” said Karlson. “When I jumped and hit the water, a shark came from the bottom of the boat and started biting my hand.”
Staying instincts kicked alive while the shark hit about six times.
Carlson said: “So we were face to face and was biting my hand only at this point,” Carlson said. “The other diving group was still in the water where this was happening and threw a life ring. My hand was somewhat distorted, so I couldn’t really get it, but I did a ring with my arms. While they were withdrawing me, another shark came and took my right leg.”
Carlson said that people started throwing oxygen tanks in the shark to try to get them out, so that she could return to the boat.
“When we realized that the boat itself, the first aid group, did not actually have the appropriate medical equipment for life supply measures. So this man-who I am very grateful-was a tourist in our diving group, threw a championship he had. They put it on my leg to stop the bleeding.”
Carlson said she had to fight in order to remain aware of the ride of boats for an hour and a half to an island, where a helicopter and respondents rushed to the hospital.
“It was like the most difficult thing I had to do in my life was to stay awake, because I was not really aware that sleep would mean that falling is unconscious and may not take it out,” Carlson said.
Once she settled, she spent a month at Miami Hospital for treatment. When she finally arrived at her home to Asben, she realized that something was wrong with her leg.
Carlson said: “The shark, when it was mine, was the sting from my ankle to the bottom of my knee. “For example, he took the whole body. I think the large of an open wound allows for infection.”
It has been transferred toChildren’s Hospital Colorado To treat fungal infection “from all millions”.
“We have had to restore multiple surgeries because of this infection,” Dr. Julia Sanders, director of the children’s bone shock at the Children’s Hospital at Colorado, told KDVR. “Thus she returned her again again and again. But she has already returned to a siphon, she works. She is doing Pilates. It’s just an incredible child. She has returned to diving.
“I would just say that everything happens for some reason and that you will always make it outside,” said Carlson, who underwent another surgery and has another date in one month. “There will always be light at the end of the tunnel.”
It has great, sports and altruistic ambitions.
“One of my biggest goals is to be able to start an institution to donate first aid groups for boats, camps and people only they need because this is what saved my life,” Carlson said. “If I don’t get a capital, I will not be here today.”