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Caelin Lacy of West Palm Beach, Fla., said she was about 25 feet out in the ocean around 11 a.m. Saturday and had just "caught a great wave" when the attack happened.

"Another good wave was coming and I started kicking. All the sudden, I turned around and something had grabbed hold of my foot," Lacy said Monday from Georgetown Memorial Hospital, where she is recovering after receiving 70 stitches to her leg and ankle and treatment for three tendons severed in the attack.

It looked like a 6-foot-long bull shark, Lacy said.

"It tore up my foot but it didn't thrash or anything. I kicked it with my right foot, and it let go immediately," Lacy said.

Lacy, whose family visits the Grand Strand every summer, said she will get back in the ocean as soon as she can.

"You're more likely to be struck by lightning than you are to be attacked by sharks," she said.

"I can't let this keep me out of the water."

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