A pastor in the United States, risked his life to save a young woman who was attacked by a shark in Maui, California.
A family was vacationing in Maui when a 20-year-old woman was attacked by a shark. Pastor Rick Moore, 57, recounts: “We were on the beach, we heard a blood curdling scream when I managed to look where the cries for help were coming from, I saw there was blood everywhere in the water around the young tourist.” .
The shepherd ran immediately, as he was at a distance of about 10 meters. Moore, saw that the young woman was floating, she had lost her arm and was bleeding a lot.
“It occurred to me – that I was in danger,” he said. «The shark could still be close, and around me, since the young woman was bleeding profusely. At that moment I began to cry out loud: “God, God protect us. She told him: “I am dying. I know I’m going to die. She was beginning to lose consciousness, “says the pastor.
“I have cried out to God to the Lord and I have enough strength, I told him, I swam towards the shore, with the other arm of the young woman around the neck,” reported Pastor Moore who bravely swam about 100 meters through the strong currents. oceanic.
A friend of Moore’s, Nicholas Grisaffi, 61, of Laguna Beach, was still waiting on the shoreline, neck-deep in water just like Moore’s wife.
The pastor says that “almost everyone was out of control, they were in a state of shock, seeing the blood, except mine.”
The pastor said that the young woman would have died if he had not rescued her, and that he would have done it again since he has a daughter of the same age.
Jana Witteropp, a German tourist, was the young woman attacked by the shark. But once she rescued her she was taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center in critical condition. Her right arm was severed below her shoulder, Lee Mainaga, chief of the Maui Fire Department, told The Associated Press that she was unable to recover her limb.
NBC4 spoke with Moore in Hawaii and his family in Laguna Niguel. Both Moore and his wife said they believed their meeting was not by chance.
“I think I’m going to be connected to her for life,” Moore said.
Translated and adapted by NoticiaCristiana.com from Christian Post
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