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A college student received more than 100 stitches after being bitten by a shark in Florida's Sarasota Bay.
Andrea Lynch, 20, said she was floating on her back near a boat when the shark bit her in her side, shook her a little bit and then let her go.
When she got back in the boat, she told her three friends that she might have been bitten by a shark and they thought she might be joking - or mistaken.
"I reached back with my hand and felt all these gashes on me," she said.
Lynch had 17 puncture wounds.
A shark expert said he believed the attack was by a roughly 2m-long bull shark.
