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It was to be a day of sailing and on New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain.
But after Shelly Trentacosta and her family ventured out to the middle of the lake with a friend's sailboat Friday, the calm conditions - along with the clear water - made it even better for swimming,
NOLA.com noted.
So the anchor went down and the family jumped in, the paper said.
Trentacosta's 7-year-old son, Trent, was enjoying himself along with everybody else - until the screaming started.
"The kids were bunched up together playing, and Trent just started screaming," his mother told NOLA. "We started swimming to him, and I didn't know what was going on. I grabbed his leg, and there was a lot of blood."
Trentacosta got her boy back into the boat but couldn't tell exactly what happened as his foot was covered with blood, the paper noted.
But once she got Trent to a doctor, NOLA noted they got the surprising news - he was bitten by a shark. His cleaned-up foot revealed the bite marks on his heel and big toe.
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