12-Year-Old Boy Survives Shark Attack
Posted April 24, 2007 12:00 pm.
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What was supposed to be a fun day at the beach became an almost deadly experience for one young boy south of the border.
Twelve-year-old Matthew Honyak was surfing in Hutchinson Island off the eastern coast of Florida when a shark attacked him and bit him in the ankle.
Lifeguards rushed to save the child sounding an emergency alarm after an onlooker yelled out “Shark bite!”.
Remarkably, the sixth-grader only needed seven stitches and apart from having to use crutches while his foot heals and being shaken up from the whole ordeal, Honyak seems to be doing just fine.
This was the fourth shark attack in six weeks in the area. Luckily, none of them were fatal.
The state’s last recorded deadly incident was in 2005.
