Updated: 1/14/15
Lacey Webb Martin was snorkeling in the Bahamas Monday when she was bitten by a shark.
The 34-year-old Dallas woman was celebrating her anniversary with husband Britt on their annual trip to Abaco Island.
The couple was snorkeling in about 8 feet of water off Tahiti Beach when an estimated 8-foot-long bull shark bit her back.
“The shark hit me from behind I knew immediately that it was a shark bite and I also in the top point of my mind realized my husband was in the water so when I surfaced I knew that I had to very clearly communicate what was going on to get my husband out of the water and then I had to get my face back in the water so I could swim for the boat,” Webb told CBS 4.
Once she made it back to the boat, towels were used as a tourniquet to stem the bleeding. A doctor onboard a nearby vessel came over and administered first-aid.
She was flown to Memorial Regional Hospital for treatment, where she will be hospitalized for at least three weeks.
The shark removed a five pound mass of muscle, tissue and skin from Webb’s torso.
“It’s a big change to my body that I haven’t had but really I wear it as a badge of honor,” Webb said. “Everyday that I’m on earth is a new and exciting day and a it’s a day for me to fight and live-on and I’m proud of it.”
She plans to have a piece of jewelry made from a fragment of shark’s tooth that was found in the wound.
“I really think my faith pulled me through this…I had faith, and I had a peace and calmness that I was in God’s hands and that I was being taken care of. The right people were sent to me.”
This is the third bite/attack of 2015.
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