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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Florida shark attack leaves man in critical condition

A great white shark, among a few much smaller sharks, swim in bright blue water.
Rescuers applied a tourniquet to staunch bleeding after the man was bitten. Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images

A shark attack off Florida’s Atlantic coast left a man with a “severe bite to his right arm” on Friday, authorities say, leaving him in critical condition from blood loss.

The Nassau county sheriff’s office marine unit, which was patrolling off the coast of Fernandina beach near the Florida-Georgia border, said it had received a distress call from a boat on Friday and had applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.

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