Two shark attacks reported in separate vacation hotspots as summer beach season starts

A South Carolina beachgoer is lucky to be alive after walking away with serious injuries from a suspected shark attack earlier this week.The incident reportedly occurred off the coast of the south end of Hilton Head Island on Tuesday, a Hilton Head Island Fire Rescue official confirmed to Fox News Digital.“The incident involved a patient with a leg injury consistent with lacerations typically associated with a shark bite,” the department said in a statement.Local rescue crews were dispatched to beach marker 24 in Sea Pines Beach at approximately 12:07 p.m.regarding reports of a medical emergency.

 Firefighters and lifeguards subsequently treated the victim at the scene before transporting her to Hilton Head Island Airport, where she was then airlifted to a local facility in Savannah for further medical treatment.Local officials declined Fox News Digital’s request for information regarding the victim’s identity and condition, citing privacy regulations.The attack comes just days after a 9-year-old girl was bitten by a shark on Florida’s Gulf Coast, according to Fox 13.Leah Lendel was enjoying a snorkeling trip with her family in Boca Grande on June 11 when a shark bit her hand, the outlet reported.The injuries left her hand “hanging by a little piece of skin,” a witness reportedly said.Lendel was pulled from the water by a nearby construction crew and airlifted to Tampa General Hospital, where she underwent surgery involving artery grafts, bone reconstruction and nerve repair.“I didn’t see anything,” Lendel said at a news conference Thursday.“I was just snorkeling and I went up to breathe, then something hard bit me and it tried to take me away.

Then I pick up my hand and it’s all in blood.Then, I started screaming with my mom.

And then, my dad was with me.He picked me up, then we ran to the road.Doctors were able to save Lendel’s hand, a feat they partially credit to how “clean” the bite was. Every morning, the NY POSTca...