Swimmer Bitten by Shark in Hawaii
By ALEXANDRE DA SILVA
Associated Press Writer
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HONOLULU (AP) -- The shark bit into Jonathan Genant's left hand, then swam off. The swimmer gripped the wrist of his injured arm to slow the blood loss, flipped on his back and began to kick. But without the use of his arms, he could only drift. Then it hit him: Would the shark come back?
"Help! Help!" Genant began yelling. Bodyboarders swam him back to Keawakapu Beach.
Genant, 29, a former triathlete, told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday he often thought about how vulnerable he would be if a shark spotted him as he trained far from shore.
"If he had taken another strike at me, I wouldn't be here today," said Genant, who lost his left pinky and part of his ring finger when he was bit by the shark Wednesday morning.
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When the sharks bite,
Then the media freaks,
Obscurring all plots,
From the right...
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