It happened at about 5 p.m. Friday evening on the 600 block of Ocean Boulevard on Holden Beach, which is about an hour away from Wilmington.

Chris Humphrey said he was swimming to a friend on a raft in deeper water when a sand shark that measured about 5 feet long bit into his forarm.

A shark’s tooth was left in Humphrey’s arm and had to be removed by surgery. He was released from the hospital Sunday morning.

[via NBC 17]

See also:

Myrtle Beach Online
The News & Observer
NBC 4
NBC 17

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