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infoshark - 18.06.2007, 21:1817.06.2007 Shark Attacks Surfing 9-Year-Old Girl
Shark Attacks Surfing 9-Year-Old Girl
VILANO BEACH, Fla. -- A 9-year-old St. Johns County girl is recovering after being attacked by a shark on Sunday.
It's not yet known where she was bitten, but authorities said the girl was taken to the hospital after the attack.
Her condition has not been released.
Fire rescue officials said the girl had been surfing off Vilano Beach.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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infoshark - 21.06.2007, 19:29'Shark bite' slows victim
'Shark bite' slows victim
Group investigates incident; victim not ready to go back into the ocean
For 9-year-old Kasey Schmidt, a day at the beach turned into three days in the hospital after she was apparently bitten by a shark off Vilano Beach.
Beach authorities are using the word apparently, because no one saw the shark and no teeth were found in the wound. The Schmidt family, longtime beach residents, is convinced it was a shark.
An organization known as the International Shark Attack File is investigation and will decide if it indeed was a shark that bit Kasey.
"We've already initiated the process," said St. Johns County Aquatics Superintendent Dave Williams Wednesday. About three shark bites are confirmed each year in the county, he said.
"There's a whole lot that goes into it. It's pretty rare you get a true confirmation." Williams said.
Kasey Schmidt, who turns 10 on July 7, is no stranger to the water. She's been surfing with her mother since she was 3 and plans to swim competitively in the Junior Olympics in Gainesville in July.
"I started surfing when I was 4. I've been tandem surfing with my mom since I was 3," Schmidt said. While she swims a great deal it's more often in a pool. About once a week, however, she heads out to surf in front of her house at Vilano.
That's where she was Sunday around 5 p.m. Her mother, Brandi, was sitting on a surfboard waiting for a wave and Kasey had already caught her wave and headed toward the shore.
"I basically sort of felt it," said Kasey Schmidt, describing how she fell off the board, started tumbling in the water and felt the shark bite. "Something bumped into my board."
Her mother heard her daughter scream and knew something out of the ordinary had happened. She still isn't sure how she got to her daughter's side but her daughter was at the edge of the shore and blood was pouring out of her right inside thigh. She used the leash on the surfboard to make a tourniquet because she wasn't sure an artery hadn't been hit. A passing beach walker carried her daughter up the steep white steps in front of the house and put her on the top of the hot tub.
"By then neighbors and strangers were all around," Brandi Schmidt said. St. Johns County Fire Rescue arrived and treated the girl taking her first to Flagler Hospital.
She's still amazed how calmly her daughter reacted despite being in obvious pain.
"There was a hole as big as my hand spread apart," she said, illustrating the size with her hand. A series of abrasions on the lower part of the leg may have been made when the rough skin of the shark passed by.
At Flagler Hospital, one nurse asked if the wound might have been made by the fin of the surfboard. After she saw it, she said it definitely looked like a shark bite.
Kasey Schmidt was transferred to Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville later Sunday evening and surgeons operated, cutting away the dead flesh and sewing up the wound.
She was allowed to come home Tuesday and her parents are hopeful the flesh around the wound will stay health. Some cosmetic surgery may be needed, but there was no muscle damage.
Kasey's father, Kevin Schmidt, was out of town on business when the accident happened. His wife telephoned him at his hotel in Argentina shortly after he arrived; Kasey was the one who told her father what had happened.
Brandi Schmidt said they have always tried to make their daughter aware of the possible dangers of the ocean. She tells of a pilot friend who has been up in the air when the beaches are full and the water is clear. He has often seen sharks swimming in the waters just a few feet beyond the humans.
"We know they're there. She knows they're there. We've always told her to get the heck out of the water if she sees a shark. That's what she did," Schmidt said.
The irony for Brandi Schmidt is that it was her daughter who was bitten. Schmidt is a professional surfer who has pursued the sport all over the world. She's been out on the water in the early morning and late evening, when bait fish are swimming and when the ocean has a fishy smell -- all times when sharks are more likely to gather. She's never been bitten.
For now, Kasey Schmidt is using crutches to get around. She's planning to return to swimming -- in chlorine pools. She says she's not ready to go back into the ocean.
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