Colorado Woman Punches Shark That Bit Her In Florida

By The Associated Press
· Nov. 4, 2015, 4:49 pm

A Colorado woman was able to fight off a shark in Florida's shallow waters by punching the predator in the nose.

The Gazette of Colorado Springs reports that 28-year-old Jill Kruse of Colorado Springs was bitten on her lower right leg Sunday after wading into the Atlantic off Florida's Cocoa Beach. Her mother says she was waist deep in the water when the shark attacked.

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