About a week after a shark bit through 9-year-old Leah Lendel’s wrist while she was snorkeling off Boca Grande, her parents sat beside her at a news conference at Tampa General Hospital. Lendel was wheeled into the room, her injured hand resting inside a cheese-shaped foam cushion to keep it elevated and reduce swelling.

The family of Leah Lendel, the 9-year-old girl who survived a shark attack at a Florida beach, speaks out about her recovery. “It was really, really bad,” Leah’s mother Nadia said, when describing the moment her daughter emerged after a shark nearly bit off her hand.

Over the last five to eight years, more and more sharks have been hanging around the beaches of Cape Cod,” Palumbi said. “It’s led to more people realizing that they have

He was behind schedule, his actors were fighting, the crew were mutinous and worst of all, his shark was broken. It looked like Jaws was destined for failure, but the movie that came out defined the Hollywood blockbuster.