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9-year-old girl nearly loses hand to Florida shark attack
actionnewsjax.com ^ | June 12, 2025 | Cox Media Group National Content Desk

Posted on 06/12/2025 10:17:39 AM PDT by V_TWIN

BOCA GRANDE, Fla. — A 9-year-old girl was snorkeling in Boca Grande, Florida, when she became the victim of a shark attack.

Leah Lendel was about four feet from her mother when the incident happened, WBBH reported.

The attack happened on Wednesday around noon, USA Today reported.

Nadia Lendel said that Leah submerged to snorkel, then came up and screamed. That’s when she saw her daughter’s arm covered in blood, her hand mostly torn off at the wrist.

Nadia Lendel was holding her two toddlers and she tried to take them to shore so she would be able to help her daughter.

Lendel’s husband was also in the water and was snorkeling with the couple’s two other children and tried to swim to Leah, who had walked to the shore by herself, WBBH reported.

The family told NBC News that she was “most likely in a state of shock.”

The Boca Grande Fire chief said Leah’s injuries looked consistent with a shark attack, but there was no shark when first responders arrived.

Leah was transported by helicopter to a Tampa hospital with her father and had a six-hour surgery to repair the damage. Doctors were able to put her hand back together.

They used arteries from her leg to get blood flowing in the hand, and installed pins in the bones. She is able to move her fingers and will be in the hospital for about a week for doctors to monitor her progress, WBBH reported.

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1 posted on 06/12/2025 10:17:39 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Red Badger

Shark ping!


2 posted on 06/12/2025 10:18:31 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN
"The Boca Grande Fire chief said Leah’s injuries looked consistent with a shark attack, but there was no shark when first responders arrived."

In other words, the alleged perp fled the scene.

3 posted on 06/12/2025 10:23:23 AM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: V_TWIN

That poor little girl!.........................


4 posted on 06/12/2025 10:32:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: V_TWIN

There was a story today about the largest Great White shark ever recorded heading toward the beach near Jacksonville.


5 posted on 06/12/2025 10:35:00 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: V_TWIN

> Doctors were able to put her hand back together. <

Heroes are not found on basketball courts or baseball fields. But they sure can be found in emergency rooms.


6 posted on 06/12/2025 10:35:37 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again. )
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To: Leaning Right

Can you imagine coming to work one day and ending up doing this? Real heroes for sure!


7 posted on 06/12/2025 10:47:45 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: V_TWIN

the photograph is a porpoise dorsal fin, not a shark LOL idiot newspaper editor


8 posted on 06/12/2025 10:50:20 AM PDT by atc23
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To: V_TWIN

Why the dolphin fin in the photo?


9 posted on 06/12/2025 10:50:37 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: V_TWIN

Once you enter the sea you are no longer at the top of the food chain.


10 posted on 06/12/2025 10:51:36 AM PDT by pepperdog ( )
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Or the woods for that matter


11 posted on 06/12/2025 10:52:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Leaning Right

Amen!


12 posted on 06/12/2025 10:53:21 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

In the USA, in the Woods, you have a right to be armed.

It puts us at the top of the food chain.


13 posted on 06/12/2025 10:54:54 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: atc23; DesertRhino

Which is it, a Dolphin or a porpoise?


14 posted on 06/12/2025 11:09:38 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I’m from Jax and there are a lotta sharks off Jax beach.


15 posted on 06/12/2025 11:40:50 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: V_TWIN

No-No look again...

It’s clearly an underfed Porcupine Goldfish !!!🐡


16 posted on 06/12/2025 11:41:23 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!! )
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I didn’t realize there were so many expert ichthyologists on FR.


17 posted on 06/12/2025 11:43:26 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Been in Duval since 1969...back in the day we would routinely find sharks teeth on the beach the size of a shot glass....and many times bigger than that.

Not so much anymore....I blame the yankee tourists finally stumbling onto the First Coast.


18 posted on 06/12/2025 11:46:56 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Ask flipper...or Elon Mush would probably know.


19 posted on 06/12/2025 12:14:31 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: V_TWIN

LOL !!! I’m an amateur compared to the Grandson who is now 8 and at 5 years old He knew every Shark and Whale and could identify them at a glance including the Extinct Sharks like Megaldon and I don’t think it’s going to be long before He starts on Fresh Water.

He’s slowed down a bit due to starting School and He can’t spend as much time on account of the other information being thrust upon Him.

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20 posted on 06/12/2025 1:02:59 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!! )
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