A dream vacation in the Bahamas turned into a nightmare for two young American tourists when they jumped hand in hand and were then attacked by a shark moments later.
Rileigh Decker, 20, and Yai Layman, 24, of Florida, were swimming in Bimini Bay on Thursday, 30 nautical miles off Florida. Royal Bahamas Police Force He said in a statement on Saturday.
The women now return to Florida after sharing Decker’s seizure from her hospital bed, after both women are bitten by a bull shark.
“We’re still very grateful to be here with all our limbs,” Decker told NBC’s “Today” show.
The girls went into the sea from a friend’s yacht, but after a while, Decker said, “I felt something in my leg.”
“I” Write, what was that? ” And he was like, ‘don’t scare me like that.’ And about two minutes later, we were right with the ladder. I felt my leg grab, and I immediately knew it was a shark,” she said.
Their friends and family immediately pulled them to safety. They wrapped a tourniquet around Decker’s right leg and found a layman biting the layman as well.
“They shouted at me that the top of my leg was broken and I didn’t realize until I just looked down,” he said.
“I just put my head in my hands and started praying that God wouldn’t take my life and I would live,” Decker said through tears. Yes, it was very scary.”
Decker was taken to a hospital in the Bahamas for further treatment. Once both were stable, both were flown back to Florida for Decker’s surgery.
The Bahamas has one of the highest shark incidences in the world, with 34 unconfirmed attacks since records began Florida Museum’s International Shark Attack Database. In 2023 a A 44-year-old Boston woman was killed in the Bahamas and after biting a 24-year-old man in April two sharks attacked Within seconds of hitting the water at a Marina.
The women said they would not be entering the ocean anytime soon.
“I won’t be in the water for a long time,” he said.
“I never will. I’ll never set foot on it again,” Decker echoed.
Decker is awaiting his third surgery in the Orlando area after enduring two procedures to clean the wound and prevent infection. Both hope to make a full recovery.
