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A teenage surfer was bitten by a shark off of New Smyrna Beach Sunday morning, a Volusia County Beach Patrol spokesman said.

The 14-year-old boy from Vero Beach was with four other surfers in the water about 100 yards out in the water near Beachway Avenue, Capt. Aaron Jenkins said.

Just before 8:30 a.m., the boy was paddling out when he was bitten on the left hand by what was described as a 4- to 5-foot-long blacktip shark.

The boy "punched it away," Jenkins said, and returned to shore, where he flagged down a beach-safety ocean-rescue officer who treated his injuries.


"He suffered pretty significant lacerations" to his left hand, Jenkins said, and was taken to a hospital.

This is the second 14-year-old surfer to be bitten off of New Smyrna in two weeks, following an attack on Sept. 20 on a boy sitting on his surfboard that was the 10th shark attack off of Volusia in 2015.