Quick-thinking California beachgoers used a surfboard leash as a tourniquet to stem massive bleeding after a shark attacked a woman wading in the ocean in northern San Diego country on Saturday evening, the Orange County Register reports.
All of the back of her leg was kind of missing, one of the rescuers, 29-year-old Thomas Williams, told the outlet. If she didnt receive immediate care, it was life-threatening.
After bystanders carried the woman from the water on a surfboard over slippery rock, Williams, who had passed an EMT training test, and others tended to her. She was later airlifted to a hospital. Several outlets said her condition is still unknown .
Rangers shut the San Onofre State Beach after the attack and posted shark attack warning signs.
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