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Florida Tourist Bitten in the Face by Shark

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) with mouth open

Photo: Caroline Warren / Photodisc / Getty Images

(New Smyrna Beach, Fla) - A Florida tourist is recovering after being bitten in the face by a shark in the waters off New Smyrna Beach.

The incident happened Tuesday morning after the 38-year-old from South Carolina fell off his surfboard.

He was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

This marks the seventh shark bite in Volusia County this year with two attacks confirmed in Central Florida during a 24-hour period this week.

Bill Eveland was surfing Monday afternoon in Satellite Beach when he was bitten in the butt and required 25 stitches.

"When I came up from the wave is when the shark kind of hit a glancing blow to my lower right back, and I knew I'd been hit," Eveland said.

"I glanced to the right, and I could see the back end of the shark coming off, like where my board [was] and enter back into the water."


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