This is the 17 year-old girl who lost a leg after being bitten by a shark off a Florida beach – only to be saved when her EMT brother beat the creature off her thigh.
Addison Bethea’s harrowing ordeal began around 3 pm Thursday when the teen and her half-brother, Rhett Willingham, 22, went out scalloping in just five feet of water near Grassy Island, off Keaton Beach in Taylor County.
‘Rhett was just like tapping me and the something latches onto my leg. And I was like, “That’s not Rhett”. I look and there’s this big old shark,’ Addison told WTXL.
‘I remembered from watching animal planet you’re supposed to punch them in the nose or something – but I couldn’t get around to his nose the way he bit me,’ she explained.
Her father, Shane Addison, 46, told DailyMail.com on Friday his daughter was in brother Rhett’s boat about a mile-and-a-half off-shore swimming in the water when she suddenly felt something hit her in the back of the leg.
Addison Bethea, 17, is…
