A North Carolina woman is praising God today after losing her arm in a shark attack last week in the Bahamas.
Tiffany Johnson was soaking up the last stop of a seven-day-cruise with her husband, James. They decided to go parasailing and snorkeling—just a 20-minute trip out to the reef.
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Accompanied by a guide and another couple, Tiffany and James explored the area. After a while, James headed back to the boat, and Tiffany stayed in for just a bit longer because there was a part of the reef she hadn’t seen.
Ten minutes later, the mother of three encountered a shark in the shallow reef.
“I felt like a tug or bump on my arm. I honestly thought I had bumped into something, that’s what it felt like,” Tiffany said. “I casually looked to the right and I was face to face with a shark, and he had my arm in his mouth.”
She could see the shark’s mouth clamped around her arm, but he wasn’t fighting her—until she began to yank her arm away from his clutch. She was only able to break free after the shark took off her arm from just below her elbow.
Tiffany quickly removed her snorkeling gear and screamed for help.
James, who was talking with the captain of the boat at the time, went into survival mode upon hearing his wife’s screams. He dove straight in and met her about halfway back to the boat.