Woman feeds shark hand in Australia, almost loses the finger

Day 3-ish: (standing on a beach paradise): "Sometimes just let go trust the universe that will guide you in the right direction #wildandfree #nofilter"

Also Day 3 : (screams, scrapes)

After the surgery: "thanks for all the beautiful messages asking if I'm fine and if"

Brunning's summer vacation ended a few weeks ago, but she has since seen them on Facebook – tagging her favorite photos of the falls and updating her friends on her media appearances to answer questions about the shark incident and its horrific consequences. (Journalists never seem to ask questions about the stunts, but it's okay.)

Showing her finger wrapped in gauze to the camera like an int The 34-year-old draftsman recounted the brief inconvenience of her otherwise idyllic visit to Dugong Bay.

on the stern of the boat at the end of May, throwing pieces of fish at a group of tawny sharks in the water, Brunning said in the west of # 39; Australia.

"Come on, turn around you," said a man next to her, a shark about six feet away while Brunning leaned toward the water – just before the screams.

Tawnies are among the most friendly species of sharks, as do sharks, according to the Florida Museum. But unlike his friends, Brunning had chosen the method of feeding by word-of-mouth, which is not mentioned anywhere in the guidelines on shark safety that we can find.

[Watch parents turn a girls’ softball game into a cleat-throwing brawl]

It looked like her finger had been sucked into a vacuum cleaner filled with razor teeth, she told the Western Australian. "She had the impression of tearing the bone," she told News 7, while smiling as if she were amused by the memory.

"I could not even look at my finger," she said. "I thought it was gone."

As seen in a cell phone video that made its way from Brunning's holiday album into international news, she tried to get up, she fell or was shot in the air. water. did on his finger what he did to fish.

And then a second later, it was over. The shark released, a friend helped her out of the water. And despite Brunning's fears, she could see that her finger was still attached.

So she continued with her vacations, the wounded figure now in her beach selfies.

Brunning thought that she would heal from herself. She did not realize before returning to Perth and seeing a doctor that she had a deep infection, torn muscles and broken bones.

Then there was an operation and news – which Brunning found delightful, and some of which she found a little too dramatic. ("Shark drags woman into crocodile-infested waters", Fox News, really?)