Craig Hutto of Tennessee was on vacation in Florida with his family when he was attacked by a 6 foot bull shark. The shark incident took place in the Panhandle of Florida, otherwise the Gulf of Mexico.
The teenager was standing in waist-deep water, when the shark bit into his right leg. The shark first bumped into the teenager, and he didn’t think of a shark until he saw the fin nearby. Craig tried to fend off the shark and his hands were bit into also.
“It looked like something straight out of 'Jaws'," Louann Hutto said.
“Just by a miracle, there were three nurses on the beach," Roger Hutto said."
This is the second shark incident in two months in the same area by a bull shark. However, the other shark victim was not as lucky to survive.
"I want to be able to walk so well with the prosthetic leg that when I have my pant leg down, you can't even tell," he said. "Right now, I limp a little bit. But with practice I want to make that go away."
"Everybody thinks I should be really scared, but it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing," he said of the shark attack. "You don't need to be scared every time you get in the water."
"It's made me live life a lot better than I did," he said. "I enjoy things I used to take for granted, like walking. Everyone takes walking for granted, but now I am really happy to be able to walk."
