Bender was surfing on New Smyrna Beach, paddling his way toward a wave when he says he felt a "very hard" bite on his arm.

By the time I looked down, it was gone, and all I saw was red, and I knew I was bitten by a shark,” Bender told NewsNation.

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According to reports, the man was fishing in the popular vacation spot for the wealthy when he reeled in the sandbar shark, ...