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06/17/2019 - Salvador Ruiz - Bahamas

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Salvador Ruiz shark attack , Bahamas shark attack - was snorkeling at Waderick Wells Cay in the Bahamas when the shark attacked.


South Florida man attacked by 6-foot shark is recovering, report says
Johnny Diaz
By Johnny Diaz
| South Florida Sun Sentinel |
Jul 15, 2019 | 2:59 PM
South Florida man attacked by 6-foot shark is recovering, report says
South Florida charter captain Salvador Ruiz was released from Jackson Memorial Hospital after a shark bit him in the Bahamas June 17. (WTVJ Ch. 6 Screen Grab / Courtesy)

With his left leg tightly wrapped in white bandages, a South Florida man who was bitten by a shark in the Bahamas last month was discharged from a Miami hospital.

Salvador Ruiz, 50, was snorkeling at Waderick Wells Cay in the Bahamas on June 17 when a six-foot reef shark attacked him, WTVJ-Ch. 6 reported.

There was “a bite and a lot of pain,” the charter captain and fishing guide told the NBC station.

Ruiz was flown to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in Miami where he’s had five surgeries, according to the report, which didn’t identify the city where Ruiz lives. To help pay his medical bills and costs of living, his friends set up a GoFundMe Page where they posted photos of Ruiz and his wound during his weeks-long stay in the hospital.
[WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE] Visit the GoFundMe page for Salvador Ruiz »

He left the hospital Sunday with the help of a walker, but he will require more surgeries, including skin grafts and rehabilitation, according to his friends.
South Florida charter captain Salvador Ruiz was released from Jackson Memorial Hospital after a shark bit him in the Bahamas.
South Florida charter captain Salvador Ruiz was released from Jackson Memorial Hospital after a shark bit him in the Bahamas. (Salvador Ruiz Go Fund Me Page / Courtesy)

Ruiz’s shark attack was among several that have happened to people in the Bahamas and elsewhere in recent months.

On July 4, a Fort Lauderdale man was bitten by a shark in the Bahamas, according to WPLG-Ch. 10, citing information from the Royal Bahamas Police Force. The station reported that a 32-year-old man and two other Americans were aboard a 41-foot Bahama craft boat on Great Guana Cay.

That bite followed another incident in the Bahamas in June, when a 21-year-old woman was fatally attacked by three sharks as she snorkeled near Rose Island.

And in March, a shark bite was suspected after something grabbed an 11-year-old boy’s leg off Stuart Beach in Martin County.

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