TORN APART BY JAWS OF DEATH!
California swimmer survives horrific great white attack
ARETIRED California teacher out for a leisurely swim cheated death when a great white shark ripped open his stomach!
Only quick action by heroic witnesses saved Steve Bruemmer — a 62-year-old member of a California swim club — at Monterey’s Lovers Point Beach as he floundered with gaping wounds in his belly and legs.
A horrific video shows Bruemmer being dragged out of the water in the nick of time!
Off-duty cop Paul Bandy and his wife, nurse Aimee Johns, rushed to the bleeding man’s side, along with surfer Heath Braddock.
“He was screaming for help,” says Bandy, who was paddleboarding nearby when the attack happened. “You
GLOBE / July 18, 2022 could tell the sound and the emotion in his voice that there was something definitely wrong and he was slapping the water!”
The determined trio immediately joined forces to save the man’s life.
“We got my biggest board and the gentleman, Paul, helped me roll the victim on the board belly down and got him kind of centered and stable,” says Braddock.
Johns explains they had
to slice Bruemmer’s wet suit off and “apply tourniquets to each limb and also to his abdomen.”
Natividad Medical Center trauma surgeon Nicholas Rottler reveals the beast’s savage bite came within a millimeter of utter disaster!
“If it severed a major artery he could’ve bled out in the water before anyone could get him to shore,” says Dr. Rottler. “It could’ve been much, much worse. He could’ve not made
it out of the water!”
The surgeon says he worked on the swimmer for over two hours and gave him “a few hundred stitches,” adding Bruemmer faces “weeks to months of physical therapy just to give time for all the wounds to heal and the muscles to get strong again.”
Bruemmer thanked his rescuers from his hospital bed: “The shark bite was unlucky, but after that, I have just had so much good luck!”