9. Jessie Arbogast
On July 6, 2002, 8-year-old Jessie Arbogast was playing with his sister and cousins in shallow water in Pensacola, Florida. Vance and Diana Flosenzier, Jessie’s aunt and uncle, were about to call the children in for dinner when one of them shouted “Shark!” Vance and Diana ran to the beach and saw a cloud of blood in the water. The shark had Jesse’s right arm in its mouth, and it was rolling. Finally, the arm came off and Diana – along with some bystanders – pulled Jessie from the water. Besides losing his arm, a big chunk of Jessie’s right thigh was also missing. As a result, he was nearly drained of blood, and he stopped breathing. Diana and other bystanders were forced to perform CPR on the boy for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, Vance grabbed the shark, which was a 7-foot bull shark, by the tail and dragged it ashore. A park ranger shot the shark and the arm was pulled from the shark’s mouth. Jessie was taken to the hospital and slipped into a coma. His arm was reattached, his leg was mended, and he came out of the coma. Unfortunately, due to the coma, Jessie is confined to a wheelchair and can no longer speak.
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