Two men were bitten by sharks in separate incidents in southern Florida in the last week, officials said.
A 35-year-old man fishing off a dock in Summerland Key, an island in the Florida Keys, was reportedly bitten in the foot by a shark, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Saturday. The shark was reportedly out of the water and on the dock when it bit the fisherman on Friday around 8 p.m. A 20-year-old Miami-Dade County man was reportedly bitten in the leg by a shark on Thursday afternoon in Marathon, which is also in the Florida Keys, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said.
The man was brought ashore in a private boat, officials said. A helicopter then picked him up and transported him to a hospital in Miami for treatment. Officials also did not specify his condition. "I just see a big gray figure of him just there, and I see it every time I close my eyes," Blanco said."It was a bull shark, and it was probably around nine to ten feet, probably around 500 pounds.
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