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let me bring in hyde county ems director justin gibbs who is on phone with me. justin i know you've talked to folks who were first responders. tell me exactly what happened and how he's doing. >> okay. at approximately 12:13 the hyde county dispatch center received a radio transmission from a lifeguard at the public access beach on ocracoke. they had a person who had sustained injuries from marine life. in talking to the providers that responded to the scene and the information that they were able to obtain from the patient it was a shark approximately 6 to 7 feet long. >> ew. >> the individual was swimming out past the first breaker when he actually bumped into the shark. that's when the shark bit him