Last month, three good Samaritans visited a beach in Pacific Grove, California, to enjoy the Pacific Ocean.

They ultimately rescued a swimmer who was attacked by a big white shark.

According to KSBW-TV, Steve Bruemmer, 62, discussed the attack in a video posted by the Natividad Medical Center.

“It was such a beautiful day. There was no wind, the ocean was flat, there were no waves, it was so calm,” he said, recalling the beautiful conditions that were about to be broken.

“I was about 150 yards from being done near the beach when — wham! I don’t even know exactly what happened,” he said. “As it turns out, I was viciously bitten across my thighs and abdomen by a shark.”

“It grabbed me and pulled me up and then dove me down in the water and then, of course, it spit me out.”

Bruemmer stated that the shark likely mistook him for a seal until it noticed something was amiss. He stated, “We’re not their food.”

However, the shark remained.

“It was looking at me, right next to me. I thought it could bite me again so I pushed it with my hand and I kicked at it with my foot and it left,” he said.

“I got myself back to the surface and started yelling for help, and that’s when all my luck changed. Really unlucky that the shark bit me. They don’t want people.”

Two paddleboarders and a surfer answered his appeal for assistance.

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“The three of them in the bloody water got me up onto the surfboard and pulled me into the beach. Heroes. How do you get in bloody water with maybe a shark circling beneath you to save a stranger? They’re amazing,” he said.

Bruemmer said two ICU nurses and a doctor who happened to be at the beach made tourniquets out of their T-shirts to stop the bleeding. “Otherwise I’d bleed to death,” he said. CONTINUE READING…