Lyn Jutronich was resting in the water during her morning swim in the ocean when something jolted her out of the water. Jutronich, 50, said she immediately knew it was a shark. She gave her first interviews over the weekend from her hospital bed where she is recovering after the shark bit her leg Friday off the Del Mar Pacific coast, north of San Diego. “I felt a huge, like a really big blow, I don’t know how else to say this, like right between my legs and it pushed me and it hurt me and it pushed me up and out of the water,” Jutronich described. on ABC news affiliate KGTV. “I saw it latch onto my leg, so I don’t know if I saw it bite my leg or if I saw it after it bit my leg, but I definitely saw the mouth,” he recalled. Still clutching her right leg, Jutronich said, then shook her once “kind of like a dog.” Then he let her go. A friend who was swimming with her saw her being thrown into the water and then saw the shark’s fin. He helped her back to shore, where lifeguards and emergency crews treated her and then took her to hospital. He is being treated for a puncture wound and lacerations to his upper right thigh. The shark is believed to be a juvenile white shark, but officials are waiting for scientists to confirm that. Juvenile white sharks often swim in the waters off the Del Mar coastline. Jutronich told reporters she is still processing what happened.
