Call it luck, being in the right place at the right time or divine intervention, but a teenage girl bitten by a shark is alive today because a doctor saw blood in the water.
Dr. Ryan Forbess, along with his doctor buddy, EMTs and nurses, happened to be enjoying family time on a beach along the Florida panhandle when a shark bit a girl not far from his own children.
“My friend Dr. (Mohammed) Ali and I vacation together yearly at 30 Rosemary Beach, so I was boogie boarding with my son, who was boarding with his daughter. Then, all of a sudden, we heard a lot of commotion to the left of us while we were in the water,” Forbess told WBRC.
Both doctors fled the water but looked back, saw blood and instinctively reacted.
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Dr. Greg Skomal, shark researcher for Massachusetts Marine Fisheries, captures video footage of a great white shark while the crew listens for its radio tag off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts, on Oct. 21, 2022. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP via Getty Images)
“They pulled the girl out onto the beach, and then we were able to start working on getting the blood stopped, and we were able to get tourniquets to secure her airway,” Forbess told WBRC.
“She was going in and out of consciousness. She was up talking, but she was in and out.”
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As the two doctors tended to the teenager at the bloody scene, other medical professionals on the beach ran to help.
Ali, who is an interventional radiologist, found the wounds to stop the bleeding until on-call first responders arrived at Rosemary Beach in Florida and airlifted the girl to a hospital, according to WBRC.
Dr. Ryan Forbess, center, was honored by his hometown of Orange Beach, Alabama, for his “heroic” actions saving a teenager who was bitten by a shark while he was vacationing in Florida. (Orange Beach City Government/Facebook)
Honor given to Dr. Ryan Forbess in his hometown of Orange Beach, Alabama. (Orange Beach City Government/Facebook)
The girl, later identified as 15-year-old Lulu Gribbin, lost her left hand in the attack, and doctors had to amputate her right leg.
However, she survived. Gribbin is still in the hospital, recovering from what are still considered life-threatening injuries as her hometown of Mountain Brook, Alabama, rallied to support their own.
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