[Opinion] "An Incredible Coolness": a 10-Year-Old Saves Her Little Brother From a Shark Attack in Florida

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The girl was diving with her 8-year-old little brother when they were attacked by a shark on Monday afternoon in the United States while they were diving with

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Rose Burrows, 10, played a key role in saving her brother, who was spending Labor Day (the first Monday in September) with her family on a Florida beach in Key Largo, Florida, the British tabloid Mirror reports, citing local media. Rose was snorkeling with her 8-year-old brother, Richard, and their father, David, 48, when a blacktip shark bit the boy's leg. The father quickly applied a tourniquet to his son's leg to stop the bleeding. A small bo…

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Shark attacks are still rare, but they have a lasting impact on public opinion when they occur. Last July, a 7-year-old boy had been seriously injured by a squale in Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia, near the dock of the fishermen in Taiohae. He had been transported as a matter of urgency and had survived his wounds but would remain marked for life. A few years earlier, in Florida, a 10-year-old boy, Jameson Reeder Jr., had lost a leg after an attack…