(WESH) A Florida surfer is recovering after a painful encounter with a large bull shark.

“I looked down and my foot was in the shark’s mouth,” Sam Cumiskey said.

The shark released Cumiskey’s right foot, giving him a chance to get away. Some said it was nothing short of a miracle, because four tendons on the top of Cumiskey’s foot were severed, and the Edgewater man suffered severe lacerations to the bottom of his foot.

“A sizable chunk was missing from my foot. Well, not missing, but filleted open,” Cumiskey said.

Cumiskey paddled in after the bite, using his leash as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.

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