A new 911 call uncovers the tense moments after a man was bitten by a shark at a Broward beach ealier this week.
“We are right behind the Tides Hotel … I don’t know the address. I’m a tourist,” an agitated man is heard telling emergency dispatchers. “He was swimming in the ocean, and I was not really paying attention to him, but I think he got eaten by a little fish or a little shark.”
Hollywood Fire Rescue, along with Hallandale Beach Ocean Rescue, rushed to treat the man’s injuries at the 4100 block of Ocean Drive around 2:50 p.m. The shark bit his upper right arm, leaving the swimmer, in his 40s, with “significant lacerations,” according to the Hollywood agency’s spokesperson, Chai Kauffman. What caused the shark to attack is still unclear…