Officials: 8-year-old boy bitten on leg by shark in Ponce Inlet By FOX 35 News Staff Published Photo credit: MUSTAFA OZER/AFP via Getty Images) PONCE INLET, Fla. - Volusia County Beach Safety said an 8-year-old boy was bitten by a shark in Ponce Inlet. It happened at around 4 p.m., according to officials. They said the boy was visiting from Miami and standing in waist-deep water in front of Winterhaven Park when a two-to-three-foot shark bit him in the leg. Volusia County Beach Safety said the boy was treated at the scene and taken to Halifax Hospital in stable condition.