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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jasmine Fernández

Georgia man fights off shark in Florida waters to save his pregnant fiancée

A Georgia man will need months of recovery after a shark bit his foot as he pushed his pregnant fiancée to safety off the Florida coast over the weekend.

Jacorey High, 21, was swimming in waist-deep water with his fiancée, Morgan Mims, near the Dunlawton Avenue approach in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, around 5:30 p.m. Saturday when the attack happened. High said he was on a weeklong vacation celebrating with Mims, who is pregnant with their first child, when the animal struck without warning.

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