Woman attacked by shark while swimming at San Diego beach

A woman is recovering after she had a chunk of her thigh bit by a shark over the weekend at a San Diego area beach.

Lyn Jutronich, 50, was swimming at Del Mar Beach just north of downtown San Diego on Friday morning when she felt something bump into her in the water.

At the time of the attack, Jutronich said that she and her swimming partner were taking a rest in the water before heading back into shore.

‘We usually relax for a couple of minutes, tread water, talk about maybe what we’re gonna get for breakfast and then we head in,’ Jutronich told <a style=”font-weight: bold;” target=”_blank” class=”class” rel=”nofollow” website 7.

Lyn Jutronich, 50, is recovering after being bit by a shark at a San Diego beach on Friday

A person at the beach caught the moment that Jutronich was seen getting help from lifeguards after being bitten

‘I felt a huge, like a really hard hit right, I don’t know how else to say this, like right between my legs and it pushed me,’ Jutronich told ABC 10 in San Diego.

It immediately concerned her because of how strong the hit was.

‘It hurt and it pushed me up and 파워볼게임 out of the water,’ Jutronich said

Despite having little reason to believe it was a shark as attacks are relatively uncommon, she said almost immediately knew what was happening.

Jutronich, who said she swam competitively in college and swims in the ocean several times a week, jumped right into action and took off.

‘I looked down and I saw the shark bite my thigh,’ said Jutronich. ‘Fortunately, it released. It shook maybe one time, that’s where I have the tears from, and then released,’ she told NBC 7.

Jutronich said everything happened so quickly that some of the events still are unclear.

After shaking the animal off, she was able to come up and scream at her partner, David, to alert him to the attack.

A shark was spotted swimming near the shores of Del Mar beach over the weekend after a woman was bit on Friday

‘”I’ve just been bit, I’ve just been bit,”‘ she recalled of what she said at the time.

‘”We have to get to shore, you have to get me into shore,”‘ she said.

‘I was still swimming with one arm, we just knew we had to get to shore,’ Jutronich continued. ‘And that’s all you’re focused on at that point.’

Typically a popular destination, Del Mar Beach was closed to the public over the weekend

‘I just remember saying to him over and over again, “David I’m bit, I’m scared, I’m bit.”‘

Jutronich and her partner were able to get back to the beach and were met with assistance from lifeguards and first responders.

The woman was taken to a nearby hospital where she has been recovering from her injuries since. Doctors are treating her for her injuries and draining any bacteria from the shark or ocean.

She’ expected to be released from the hospital in the coming days.

Signs were posted at the beach telling visitors that the water would be closed due to a recent shark attack

Del Mar Beach was closed for multiple days after the attack.

‘For having being bit by a shark, I’m doing pretty well,’ she told ‘My friend sent me an article that said I should buy a Powerball ticket because apparently, the chances of winning the power ball are less than being attacked by a shark so I’ve got that going for me.’ 

Lifeguards at Del Mar Beach confirmed that Jutronich had been bit by a juvenile white shark

Earlier this year, CBS 8 <a style=”font-weight: bold;” class=”class” rel=”nofollow noreferrer noopener” target=”_blank” website that there was an increase of white shark sightings in San Diego County.

Dr. Chris Lowe, Director of the Shark Lab at California State University Long Beach, told the outlet that the Southern California county is a hot spot for the animals and has become a ‘nursery site’ in recent years.

‘Starting about 2 years ago, we started seeing juvenile white sharks down in San Diego County, and now that’s one of our biggest hot spots,’ Lowe said.

The sharks range from four to nine feet before they are six years old.

Juvenile white sharks have taken to San Diego County in recent years as the population has recently seen an uptick

Before reaching adulthood, the animals seek out shallower waters because they believe it’s safer near the shore.

‘People don’t often think of a 5-foot white shark as being afraid of anything, but they are,’ Lowe told CBS 8. ‘So they’re born, they’re given no parental care, completely on their own, and we think the reason why they choose shallow water on beaches is it’s a safe place for them.’

In the same interview, Lowe said that shark attacks with the juvenile great white sharks and incredibly uncommon.

‘There is a relatively low risk of people being injured by those juvenile white sharks that are using our popular beaches as their nursery,’ said Dr. Lowe.

According to one expert, juvenile great white sharks swim closer to the shore where they believe the waters are safer

In the United States so far this year, there have been more than two dozen shark attacks across the country.

Data compiled by the<a style=”font-weight: bold;” class=”class” rel=”nofollow noreferrer noopener” target=”_blank” website Wall Street Journal shows that the majority of the attacks have occurred on Florida’s shorelines with 28 in total and only two of those having been provoked.

‘The most frequent type of unprovoked bites are so-called “hit and run” attacks, the museum says. These normally happen in the surf zones as coastal shark species follow schools of fish close to shore,’ a report from WSJ said.

Most sharks do not return to after they have inflicted an initial injury, like a bite or cut.

The most common states for attacks include Florida, Hawaii, California, and South Carolina.

<div id=”external-source-links” class=”item”
data-track-module=”am-external-links^external-links”>
Read more:

• Del Mar Shark Bite Victim Speaks Out ¿ NBC 7 San Diego
• fox5sandiego.com…
• Juvenile white shark sightings increasing in San Diego County | cbs8.com
• Shark Attacks in U.S. Total 28 So Far This Year – WSJ

DM.later(‘bundle’, function()
DM.has(‘external-source-links’, ‘externalLinkTracker’);
);