An 8-year-old girl has recounted the terrifying moment a hungry dolphin leapt out of the SeaWorld park pool and sunk its teeth into her hand, almost pulling her back into the water with it.
Jillian Thomas of Alpharetta, Georgia, told ABC's
Good Morning America in an interview on Monday that while she was feeding the dolphins in the Orlando, Florida park she had raised a paper carton she was holding and "when the dolphin saw that, it leaped at me and bit me, ate the carton."
"It really, really hurt," Jillian said on the morning show where she showed hosts her three healing punctured wounds.
Jillian's father, Jamie Thomas, who was by his daughter's side at the theme park and had captured on video (see video below) the moment when the dolphin had latched onto Jillian on November 21, said his reaction to his daughter being bitten was "instant fear".
"I thought that, wow, I may have to lunge at the dolphin, and pull her or, get physically involved," he recalled.
He said that after he pulled his daughter away from the dolphin tank, a SeaWorld employee had asked if the family needed help.
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