A Florida man is recovering after surviving a shark attack while spearfishing off the coast of the Bahamas during a fishing-trip-turned-nightmare.

Eddie Jarmakowicz from Riviera Beach was diving during a three-day fishing trip to Grand Cay on Aug. 16 when he was bitten by a shark. The attack occurred just offshore and left him with serious injuries to his left hand.

Submitted Photo Eddie Jarmakowicz

“I never saw the shark that attacked me, but my wrist was hanging down, and I could see flesh, so obviously that was a concern. I swam back to the boat, and the whole rescue started from then,” Jarmakowicz said.

There were four people in his group at the time — two in the water and two aboard the boat. The other diver in the water said the type of shark that bit Jarmakowicz was a reef sha

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