A South Carolina surfer has shared his terrifying expertise of being attacked by a suspected shark on his face.

Mark Summerset, 38, was browsing on September 12 when he felt a sudden and intense stress on his face. He stated it felt like a bear entice clamping down on his cheek. He believes the ocean creature that bit him had 5 rows of enamel, because it left him with a deep and bloody wound.

“I felt this pressure on my face,” he instructed NBC News.

“It felt like a bear trap. I think he just ripped down a little bit. But sharks have five rows of teeth, so he tore me up pretty bad, and he let go.”

Mark was surfing early in the morning when the attack happened. He said he jumped off his board and saw something under the water that bit his face, but he could not identify it at the time.

According to The Daytona Beach News-Journal, he was transported to AdventHealth hospital in New Smyrna Beach due to a two-inch laceration on his right cheek.

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After the attack, helicopter footage showed sharks swimming in the area where Mark was bitten.

Mark said he had a DNA swab taken from his cut to find out what kind of creature attacked him. He said he had seen about 10 sharks in the area the day before the incident.

He thinks the shark mistook his necklace for a fish and grabbed his face. “It thought I was a fish, the scales on the fish,” he said. “And he grabbed my face due to that, I imagine. I’m virtually 100% sure of that.”

He stated he nonetheless feels ache in his face from the chew, however he isn’t deterred from browsing once more.

“If I die surfing, I die a happy man. That’s something that I will do and I will carry with me for the rest of my life, and I will never stop surfing.”

The assault on Mark was one in all 32 shark bites recorded this yr, together with seven in Florida’s Volusia County.

In one other shark-related story, a Connecticut couple rescued a child shark that was trapped in a piece glove final week. Deb and Steve Dauphinais noticed a juvenile shark measuring 16 inches, with its head trapped inside a piece glove resting on the backside of roughly 35 ft (10 meters) of water.

Deb Dauphinais, an skilled dive teacher, initially believed the shark to be lifeless. But, upon detecting indicators of motion, she signaled her husband to help her in liberating the creature.

“He came over and did his own little double-take,” she stated.

She stated her husband pulled on the glove, which appeared to be caught to the shark’s head, however it will definitely got here off.