by alaa adnan edris

Shark Bites 

I want to tell you about story happened to me before I come to USA. The story about shark bites first of all I am a person really like the sea and sometime my friends call me amphibious guy. In my family we all love sea I think it is in our genetic because all my uncles are diving and they all have license for diving. One of my uncles he is a fisherman, so I am really sure it is genetic.

At 3.00 PM I waked up, and I called my friends because our destination is far, and more we arrived early, it will batter for hunting. IN addition, the city we are going to is named Rabg. This city has beautiful beaches and a lot of people don't know about it. It takes from hometown to Rabg like 2 hour. So, my friend Mohammad came to home, and he has Toyota car Tacoma 1998, we put all the staff in the track and ties with the robe, but Gsan and Saud they follow us by their cars. Mohammad usually drives all the way. While he driving I turned the music on and we started chatting and makes jokes. The good thing we didn’t feel about the time it past so fast. After two hour of driving, we meet the guy who rent the boat. The rent was 1000 RS for one day with dollars almost like $250, and the boat was 2.5m its big boat, and with 200 horse power we can go to any way.

          However, the weather was perfect, there are no waves, and the sky was so clear. Gsan turn on the engines, and the rest of us loaded the gears on boat. We started driving- with nice sea breeze and wonderful blue sea view I told myself "I am in haven"- to the location.

Finally, we reach the location we started making the breakfast. After the meal we pepper for hunting. I was the first one who jumped on the water. I was so exciting I think the reason, after long week of final exams I really need to change my mood. I started to swim around the boat; i got far like 6m. Then I found good fish I took a deep breath I got very close from the target then I take the shoot, but the air almost done, so I left the gun in the bottom of sea it was not so deep almost like 3m, so I went to the surface I took another breath I went down again once I grab the fish suddenly something caught my hand it was a shark I didn’t believe that. The shark tries to pull me inside the small hole. I started to straggle, I don’t have enough air and my hand stuck in shark mouth. Eventually, with my all strength I pulled my hand from the shark mouth. First time I thought it's just a scratch, but when I saw my thumb pounds another straggle started to reach the boat. The only thing was holding my thumb was the skin at the bottom of the finger.

          At last I reach the boat when my friends saw the blood they all panic, and I felt I really want to sleep, but I told myself "I am blooding and I want to sleep". One of my friends tells me go to the head of the boat there is a lot of empty space. Once I wake to the head of the boat I felt down - I heard about people felting down I didn’t Imagine like that you cannot open your eyes – after a while I started open my eyes I felt someone slapping me took the first one, second, and at third one I stopped him. It was Mohammad he was almost crying. After that he seems looking for something. He thought I need sugar because I lose a lot of blood, so he found Masob is Arabic traditional food, Masob is very delicious, but never try it with chocolate. Mohammad mixed it with sugar the taste was bad.

However, we went very fast to the land. We took the car, and Mohammad drive very fast to the hospital. They took me to the ER the doctor said I need do the surgery. The next day I did it, and I stayed in hospital for one week.

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For who likes diving and snorkeling Red Sea is the best place to see wonderful views. It is another world; Red Sea is account as the second beautiful sea in the world. The reasons they give Red Sea this name because form the airplane the color of sea change to red. Also, I wish I have the ability to explain more about red sea, but all I can say it is another beautiful word I cannot describe.