護士鯊咬住游泳者手臂 直到醫院都未鬆嘴
Bob Lemons has seen a few shark attack victims in the oceanside Florida town of Boca Raton, but he says last Sunday's incident was a first for him.
鮑勃·雷蒙斯已經在佛羅里達州的博卡拉頓的海濱小鎮見到過許多位被鯊魚襲擊的受害者，但他表示，上週日的事件卻是他第一次經歷的。Paramedics rushed a beachgoer to the hospital with a two-foot-long nurse shark clinging to her arm after efforts to disengage it failed.
試圖讓一隻兩英尺長、緊緊地咬住一位海灘常客手臂的護士鯊鬆口失敗之後，醫護人員趕快把受害者連同鯊魚一起送進了醫院。Lemons, spokesman for the Boca Raton Fire Rescue, said the 23-year-old woman was already out of the water when rescuers reached the beach.
博卡拉頓消防局的發言人雷蒙斯表示，這名23歲的女子在救援隊趕到沙灘時已經上岸了。
"She was sitting calmly, seemed to handle it pretty well," Lemons told USA TODAY.
雷蒙斯接受《今日美國》採訪時表示：“她冷靜地坐在那裏，看上去對這件事處理得不錯。”
But rescuers could not get the shark to release — even though it had died. So they loaded woman and shark into the ambulance and headed for Boca Raton Regional Hospital.
但救援人員沒法讓鯊魚鬆口--雖然鯊魚已經死了。所以他們把這名女子和鯊魚一起送上了救護車，前往博卡拉頓的地區醫院。"This was a unique situation for us," Lemons said. "I haven't heard of something like that before, and I've been here almost 30 years."
“這對於我們來說是非常特殊的情況，”雷蒙斯說。“我從未聽說過這樣的事，我在這裏將近30年了。”The woman was treated for her injuries and released.
據悉，經過治療，這名女子已經離開醫院了。Nurse sharks, common off of Florida's coast, are about 1 foot in length at birth and generally grow to about 7 feet long. The maximum length recorded is about 13 feet, according to a National Park Service report on the sharks.
護士鯊是佛羅里達海岸的常見品種，出生時大約1尺長，通常能長到大約7尺。據國家公園服務處的報告顯示，最長的記錄是13尺。The Park Service says people swim near nurse sharks every day without realizing it and without incident. "Attacks" are rare and typically are the result of the shark being bothered with a hook, spear or hand.
公園服務處表示，人們每天都是在護士鯊身旁游泳，但通常對此不知情，也沒有事故發生。“襲擊”很罕見，通常是因爲鯊魚被魚鉤，長矛或手打擾到。Nurse sharks have razor sharp but small teeth that seldom penetrate deeply: "Holding still reduces damage to both shark and man. Leaving sharks alone is the best tactic," the Park Service says.
護士鯊有剃刀般鋒利但很小的牙齒，很少能深入地穿透：“保持靜止能夠降低對鯊魚和人類的傷害，而遠離鯊魚是最好的策略，”公園服務處說。
