Re: 06/19/2011 Ceford Lewis ( Turks and Caicos )
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:35 pm
Shark attacks fisherman
A FISHERMAN is lucky to be alive after a shark bit into his leg while he was out spear-fishing on Sunday morning.
Cefor Lewis, 35, lost about 40 per cent of his blood following the attack which took place between Providenciales and French Cay.
Luckily he arrived at Cheshire Hall Medical Centre just in time for staff to save his life and severely injured limb.
Haitian-born Cefor was out on a fishing trip with his brother Joelyn Pierre and another friend early on Sunday morning.
They sailed up towards French Cay and at about 10am they stopped to allow Cefor to get into the water to do some spear-fishing.
Joelyn told the Weekly News that his brother had wanted to shoot a shark, but he warned him not to.
After a diving down in the water he resurfaced a few minutes later yelling and screaming.
Joelyn said: “When I turned the boat to go to him, I saw a shark lift him high out of the water.”
He described the shark as an adult of about five feet long, and said it was not a tiger shark.
Joelyn grabbed his brother and dragged him out of the water and into the boat and they set off for Providenciales.
“There was a lot of blood. The only thing I could tell him was: ‘You’re a Christian man, you aren’t gonna be dead’.
“I saw the shark lift him up – if it had bitten him in the belly or some place like that he would be dead.
“The only one thing I know is that God gave him life and gave him a chance.”
The journey took about an hour back to Provo and in the meantime Joelyn called his boss and arranged for an ambulance to meet them at the dock.
On arrival he was quickly taken to Cheshire Hall Medical Centre for treatment.
A spokesperson for Interhealth Canada said: “He suffered a large bite through the muscles on his right mid calf.
“He suffered considerable blood loss during the boat journey back to South Dock, where he was met by an ambulance and rushed to the ED department at Cheshire Hall Medical Centre.
“His life was in serious danger due to the loss of blood.”
Cefor was initially seen by Dr Roger Callaghan who told media that the injury was “luckily mostly soft tissue injury so the leg itself was viable”.
Dr Callaghan and his team immediately set about cleaning up the wound, rehydrating him and resuscitating him with two units of blood.
He was then taken into theatre where surgery was carried out to save his leg, and on Tuesday he had further clean up surgery.
Dr Callaghan told the media that this is the first live shark attack victim that the hospital had seen.
“He was lucky that he was able to get here, and lucky he didn’t bleed any more,” he said.
“The main artery didn’t seem to have been cut, so that’s what saved his life.”
By Rebecca Bird
http://tcweeklynews.com/shark-attacks-f ... 2430-1.htm
A FISHERMAN is lucky to be alive after a shark bit into his leg while he was out spear-fishing on Sunday morning.
Cefor Lewis, 35, lost about 40 per cent of his blood following the attack which took place between Providenciales and French Cay.
Luckily he arrived at Cheshire Hall Medical Centre just in time for staff to save his life and severely injured limb.
Haitian-born Cefor was out on a fishing trip with his brother Joelyn Pierre and another friend early on Sunday morning.
They sailed up towards French Cay and at about 10am they stopped to allow Cefor to get into the water to do some spear-fishing.
Joelyn told the Weekly News that his brother had wanted to shoot a shark, but he warned him not to.
After a diving down in the water he resurfaced a few minutes later yelling and screaming.
Joelyn said: “When I turned the boat to go to him, I saw a shark lift him high out of the water.”
He described the shark as an adult of about five feet long, and said it was not a tiger shark.
Joelyn grabbed his brother and dragged him out of the water and into the boat and they set off for Providenciales.
“There was a lot of blood. The only thing I could tell him was: ‘You’re a Christian man, you aren’t gonna be dead’.
“I saw the shark lift him up – if it had bitten him in the belly or some place like that he would be dead.
“The only one thing I know is that God gave him life and gave him a chance.”
The journey took about an hour back to Provo and in the meantime Joelyn called his boss and arranged for an ambulance to meet them at the dock.
On arrival he was quickly taken to Cheshire Hall Medical Centre for treatment.
A spokesperson for Interhealth Canada said: “He suffered a large bite through the muscles on his right mid calf.
“He suffered considerable blood loss during the boat journey back to South Dock, where he was met by an ambulance and rushed to the ED department at Cheshire Hall Medical Centre.
“His life was in serious danger due to the loss of blood.”
Cefor was initially seen by Dr Roger Callaghan who told media that the injury was “luckily mostly soft tissue injury so the leg itself was viable”.
Dr Callaghan and his team immediately set about cleaning up the wound, rehydrating him and resuscitating him with two units of blood.
He was then taken into theatre where surgery was carried out to save his leg, and on Tuesday he had further clean up surgery.
Dr Callaghan told the media that this is the first live shark attack victim that the hospital had seen.
“He was lucky that he was able to get here, and lucky he didn’t bleed any more,” he said.
“The main artery didn’t seem to have been cut, so that’s what saved his life.”
By Rebecca Bird
http://tcweeklynews.com/shark-attacks-f ... 2430-1.htm