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[h=4]16-year-old victim: Shark 'biting up' arm[/h]The 16-year-old boy who lost a limb in a shark attack earlier this week said the first time he saw the shark it "was biting up" his left arm.
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Hunter Treschl lost his arm in a shark attack off the coast of Oak Island, North Carolina, but the 16-year-old won't let the loss shake his spirit.
In this image taken from video provided by New Hanover Regional Medical Center, 16-year-old Hunter Treschl, of Colorado Springs, Colo., speaks during an interview at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, N.C. The teen was seriously wounded in a shark attack.(Photo: AP)
The 16-year-old boy who lost a limb in a shark attack earlier this week said the first time he saw the shark it "was biting up" his left arm.
Hunter Treschl spoke about the attacks in a series of videos uploaded by New Hanover Regional Medical Center in North Carolina, where he's receiving treatment.
"I didn't see it coming," Treschl said.
The teen thanked those who worked to save him after the attack.
Treschl of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Kiersten Yow, 12, of Archdale, N.C., were maimed in separate shark attacks on the same stretch of a North Carolina beach Sunday.
Treschl said he was playing with his cousin in the ocean when he felt something bump his legs.
"I felt this kind of hit on my left leg. I felt like it was a big fish come under me and then I felt it like one more time. And then it kind of hit my arm," Treschl said on Tuesday in one of the clips.
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Both Treschl and Yow were in waist-deep water about 20 yards offshore when they were attacked along a stretch of beach in Oak Island, about 30 minutes south of Wilmington. The girl was attacked first, about 4:10 p.m., near a popular pier, and the boy about 5:40 p.m., according to dispatch logs.
Treschl said his cousin helped him out of the water and a man used a belt as a makeshift tourniquet to stop the bleeding from his arm.
A witness described the attack on the boy to ABC News.
"He looked like he was waving at his friends," Randy Milligan said. "Then the shark just came out of the water and, like you snap your fingers, bit his whole arm off."
Officials could not say whether the same shark was involved in both attacks. The size of the shark or sharks was not known.
Yow, who also lost a portion of her arm and suffered injuries to her left leg, is being treat at UNC hospitals in Chapel Hill, N.C.. On Tuesday, her family released a statement asking for privacy while she recovers.
"She has a long road to recovery that will include surgeries and rehabilitation, but her doctors at UNC expect she will keep her leg, and for that we are grateful," Brian and Laurie Yow said.
The family called the event "extraordinarily traumatic" and asked for "time and space to come to terms with what has happened."
Treschl said he looks forward to returning home, seeing his friends and living a normal life.
"I can try to live my life the way I was and make an effort to do that even though I don't have an arm, or I can kind of just let this be completely debilitating and bring my life down and ruin it in a way," Treschel said. "Out of those two, there's really only one that I would choose to do and that's the first — to try to fight and live a normal life with the cards I've been dealt."
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