Horror as Shark Bites 13-year-old Boy, Leaves Him in Critical Condition (Photos)

 young boy who was only just having a fun time swimming away the day on the beach has has been put through a most shocking experience after a shark bit him.

 

The 13-year-old boy was seriously injured and left with a massive eight-inch laceration after being attacked by a shark on a Florida beach

 

The 13-year-old boy was seriously injured after being attacked by a shark on a Florida beach.

 

According to CBS News, Neptune Beach police spokesman Michael Key revealed that the boy and his stepfather were swimming in chest-deep water on Sunday afternoon when the shark attacked.

 

The shark latched on to the boy's right leg - on the backside of his right knee and his calf - and then swam off.

 

Around 3pm lifeguards were notified of a teenage boy being pulled by other swimmers from an apparent shark bite. 

 

Lifeguards estimate the shark that bit the unidentified boy was about five to six feet long. The laceration left on his leg was about eight inches long. 

 

'This lady runs in the water carries this boy. All you see is just blood, dripping and dripping out for about 50 feet,' said Lou DeMark.

 

In a video taken by a witness, the boy can be seen on what appears to be a paddle board or some type of emergency board. 

 

He is comforted by an adult who presses the teen's head into his shoulder as a lifeguard wearing blue gloves tends to the wound in the 13-year-old's leg. 

 

'One witness tells me that the boy was hysterical after a shark bit him and his dad was hugging him trying to calm him down,' Action News Jax reporter Katie McKee tweeted. 

 

The boy being attended to after the attck

 

The boy was taken to UF Health Jacksonville in Florida in stable condition and although authorities said his injury was severe it was not considered life-threatening.  

 

Key said it was the first shark attack of the season at the beach.

 

Some scientists have predicted the increase in attacks this year and say it is due to climate change.

 

George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida, warned that the United States could expect more than 100 attacks this year - thanks, in part, to global warming.