An ordinary snorkeling excursion in a shallow reef in the Bahamas turned horrific last week when a shark attack cost a North Carolina mother of three much of her right arm. “I kept trying to yank my hand back and the last time I yanked, he had cut it clean off so I was able to actually get free,” Johnson told WSOC.com. [From the archives: 17-year-old girl dies from shark attack while surfing, with her mother and sisters looking on]“She felt her arm, like a small tug on her arm,” her husband, J.J. Johnson, told WBTV. “When she realized what was happening, she tried to pull her arm out of the shark’s mouth and that’s when the shark clamped down tighter,” he said. “It’s a limb and I’m here.”This Concord mom lost her arm in a brutal shark attack last week She told me: “Who cares about a limb?

Source: Washington Post June 12, 2017 13:15 UTC