Woman Saves Husband From Shark

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(May 22) -- A man attacked by a 7-foot shark lived to tell the tale –- thanks to the quick actions of his "angel" wife.

Petite Marlene Hernandez pulled her 160-pound husband out of the water and then stopped him from bleeding to death.

"She's my angel," Luis Hernandez said Friday on NBC's 'Today' show. "She saved me and I love her so much before and even more now. I'm so happy to have her as a wife. I'm the happiest man on earth right now."

The Hernandezes, of Deerfield Beach, Fla., were on a romantic getaway to the Bahamas when they decided to take a boat out on May 6. Luis, 48, was spear-fishing in the water when he was attacked by a bull shark.

"He came out of nowhere and attacked me. I didn’t see it coming," Luis told 'Today' co-anchor Meredith Vieira.

Luis said the shark’s jaws latched onto his arm. "I punched him in the face repeatedly and I screamed for help to my wife on the boat. In the end, I opened his jaw with my other hand, and that's when I could get loose."

Marlene Hernandez heard her husband and sprang into action. She managed to haul up the boat's anchor by herself, started the engine and rushed to her injured husband.

Although she is 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 108 pounds -- 50 pounds less than Luis -- Marlene managed to haul him into the boat. Then she used a towel to fashion a tourniquet to stop the bleeding from his mangled arm.

"I don't know where it came [from]," Marlene told Vieira. "It was something that I can't explain. It just happened, and I just did it and I don't know how."

Marlene radioed for help as she drove the boat back to shore. Luis was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. He has undergone five surgeries and is expected to need several more operations to reconstruct his forearm.

His surgeon said the shark narrowly missed severing an artery in Luis' arm.
"He was probably about an inch away from losing his arm and losing his life," Dr. Roberto Miki told Vieira. "An inch more and he probably would not have made it out of the water."


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