A Colorado teen who was viciously attacked by two sharks her during a family vacation last year recalled the harrowing moment she realized she lost her leg.

Annabelle Carlson was on a scuba excursion with her family in the Gulf of Honduras, three hours off the coast of Belize in August 2024 when she was bitten.

The beasts pounced on Carlson almost immediately after she hit the water, she said. 3

“My leg was pretty much gone … it was kind of just bone from right below my knee to my ankle,” Annabelle Carlson, 16, told NewsNation Friday.

She and her siblings had decided to jump off the boat when “a shark came from under the boat and started biting my hands.”

The teenager ferociously “threw a few punches,” even though she had no idea what she was up against.

“I didn’t really kn

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