12-11-2010, 05:29 AM
Floating on her back in the warm waters of the Red Sea, Olga Martsinko was enjoying her holiday. She looked up at the clear blue sky and idly kicked the flippers on her feet as she swam close to the sandy beach full of sunbathers.
The next moment, her nightmare began. Olga’s outstretched left hand touched something solid with a rough skin as it dived underneath her.
‘At first I thought it was a dolphin, but then I felt a sharp pain as it came up, sank its teeth into my arm and began to wag me around,’ she recounted yesterday from a hospital bed in Cairo.
‘It tried to pull me down with it into the sea, and I saw the huge jaws of a shark and a sharp fin beside me. The shark let me go for a second and I swam away. But it came back for more, biting me again and again from behind.
‘If I had not had my flippers on, it would have taken off both my legs.’ As it was, by the time Olga made it to the jetty, to be hauled to safety by other holidaymakers, she was terribly injured.
The white tip shark chasing her through the water had taken a chunk of the top of her left thigh and buttock. Her hand and arm were missing, and her blood had turned the sea red.
Olga---->
The next moment, her nightmare began. Olga’s outstretched left hand touched something solid with a rough skin as it dived underneath her.
‘At first I thought it was a dolphin, but then I felt a sharp pain as it came up, sank its teeth into my arm and began to wag me around,’ she recounted yesterday from a hospital bed in Cairo.
‘It tried to pull me down with it into the sea, and I saw the huge jaws of a shark and a sharp fin beside me. The shark let me go for a second and I swam away. But it came back for more, biting me again and again from behind.
‘If I had not had my flippers on, it would have taken off both my legs.’ As it was, by the time Olga made it to the jetty, to be hauled to safety by other holidaymakers, she was terribly injured.
The white tip shark chasing her through the water had taken a chunk of the top of her left thigh and buttock. Her hand and arm were missing, and her blood had turned the sea red.
Olga---->