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yet another shark attack on florida surfer

A teenager is in the hospital after a shark bite. It’s the second time a shark bite in New Smyrna Beach has landed a surfer in the hospital.

17 year old Ethan Fulton was surfing near Ponce Inlet with friends Friday morning when a shark clammed down on his right foot. The staff and the physicians in the Bert Fish emergency room assessed cleaned the wounds started dealing with it and determined More.. surgery was needed says Gary Mac, spokesperson for Bert Fish Medical Center.

Scott Petersohn with Volusia County Beach Patrol says Fulton’s friends never called his lifeguards for help. Petersohn says Fulton’s friends loaded him into a car then headed to the hospital.

During the trip, Petersohn says, Fulton began to lose consciousness so the friends stopped and called for help. According to Fulton’s father that’s not all his sons friends did. They did use a surfboard leash to put a tourniquet above the knee says Bruce Fulton.The teenager’s mother and father rushed to the hospital after learning about their son’s injury. Bruce Fulton says the shark severed his sons Achilles tendon should have a 100 percent recovery but you never can tell with Achilles tendon because that is a very a place where you can have injury for the rest of your life if it's not repaired correctly says Fulton.

Doctors rushed the surfer directly into surgery. Bruce Fulton says his son knew the risks of surfing in the area known as the shark bite capital of the world. He also says his son knew someone was bitten in the area earlier this week. Despite the injury Fulton says before his son went into surgery he left everyone know that when he recovers he’s going to get right back on his surfboard. Less..

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