A teen who lost an arm after a shark attack in North Carolina said he felt the big fish before he saw it and didn’t realize what it was until it was “biting up my left arm.” ”We were just playing around in the waves, and I felt a hit on my left calf,” 16-year-old Hunter Treschl said in a videotaped interview released Tuesday night by the hospital where he is being treated. “I thought it felt like a big fish, and I started moving away. And then the shark bit my arm — off.”

US shark attack survivor: Fish was biting up my left arm. (2015, June 19). The Philippine Star, p. A-26.