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Despite the horrific ordeal, though, the 13-year-oldsays he’s eager to swim again.
“[I] definitely wanna get back out there,” Webre-Hayes told a classroom full of students when he returned to school on Wednesday,according toGood Morning America. He told the class he hopes to get back to surfing, “really, really soon.”
Wednesday marked the boy’s first public statements regarding the September incident. Webre-Hayes was diving for lobsters with a friend just off the coast of Encinitas, a popular beach city in San Diego County, California, when an at least 10-foot shark attacked.
“When I was in the water, I was like, ‘This is probably a big fish,’ ” Webre-Hayes recalled to the students. “Then my mind instantly went to shark.”
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The kayaker, Chad Hammel, previously toldCBS Newsthat he heard the boy “in a panic.”
“Once we threw him up on the kayak and started heading in, that’s when I looked back, and the shark was behind the kayak,” Hammel recalled toFOX 5. “He didn’t want to give up yet.”
Keane was airlifted to Rady Children’s Hospital where he underwent at least five hours of surgery, according toGMA.
Dr. Tim Fairbanks, chief of pediatric surgery at Rady’s, told theAssociated Pressthat the shark bit deep into the boy’s body, reaching his chest wall. The bite tore Webre-hayes’ left upper back, torso, shoulder, face and ear.
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But when he does, “he’ll be wrapped in bubble wrap,” his mother, Ellie Hayes, said to the students.
source: people.com
