1. Gregory Kuehlewind and friend trying to get fish hook out of shark's mouth
2. Kuehlewind after being bitten by shark
Delray Beach, Florida - 13 March 2007
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gregory Kuehlewind, bitten by shark:
"When the shark latched onto my hand a whole lot really didn't go through my head other than, try not to let the damage worsen. I felt where the teeth were in my hand pretty easily. They sunk all the way to the bone very quickly and the pressure was very continuous. There was no chewing to it at all - there was more of just a clamp. So the motion of it was very simple and then when I felt it simply latch onto the bone and kind of stuff I just wanted it off of there and after it came off of there and I could feel my hand was, I could still move everything pretty well. You know, there was no thought of being worried ever really, it happened so quickly. I mean to sum everything up it was a blur - one second you know the hook was almost out of the mouth and the next second my hand was almost entirely in the mouth."
4. Close-up of Kuehlewind's hand, four days after the attack
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gregory Kuehlewind, bitten by shark:
"The plan originally was to just cut the line, leave the hook in there to rust. But we didn't have any more hooks that day and we had plenty more bait, so I figured it would be fun to go back out and try to catch another one so - bad decision but I guess you know I wanted to get the hook out so I stuck my hand down there seeing as we didn't have any pliers."
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Delray Beach, Florida - 9 March 2007
6. Kuehlewind and friend catching shark while in kayak
A Florida surfer was captured on a home video last Friday being bitten by a shark on Delray Beach in Florida after he and a friend had caught it with a fish hook.
Gregory Kuehlewind and a friend had been kite surfing before going out fishing for sharks in a kayak.
The two men said they had already seen sharks swimming in the area.
After catching a five foot shark, Kuehlewind was trying to remove the hook from the shark's mouth, when he got bitten.
"When the shark latched onto my hand a whole lot really didn't go through my head other than, try not to let the damage worsen. I felt where the teeth were in my hand pretty easily. They sunk all the way to the bone very quickly and the pressure was very continuous," Kuehlewind said.
Kuehlewind said he had been interested to see what kind of sharks they were.
He said he didn't want to harm the sharks but just to catch and release them.
"The plan originally was to just cut the line, leave the hook in there to rust. But we didn't have any more hooks that day and we had plenty more bait, so I figured it would be fun to go back out and try to catch another one so - bad decision but I guess you know I wanted to get the hook out so I stuck my hand down there seeing as we didn't have any pliers," Kuehlewind added.
