I was attacked by sharks – it felt like I had been beaten

A Florida man has described what it was like to fall into a shark pit in the Bahamas and still has the story to tell.

Marlin Deere Wakeman, 24, was working on a boat at Flying Fish Marina on Long Island when he slipped and fell into a “cave” of Caribbean reef sharks on April 26.

Two sharks attacked him, one dragging him underwater by his leg and another attacking his shoulder, just inches from an artery. “A lot of pressure,” Wakeman said of the bites at a news conference at a Palm Beach hospital Thursday. “The hit on my shoulder felt like a punch…You really can’t feel your teeth going in.”

Sharks off the Bahamas have attacked people five times in the last decade

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Wakeman screamed for help and finally gathered strength