9-year-old girl recounts moment she was bitten by shark while snorkeling in Florida

I pick up my hand and it's all in blood. For the first time, a young girl speaking about the day a shark attacked her while she was swimming in Bokeh Grande, Florida. I was just snorkeling. Then I went up to breathe and then something hard bit me and then tried to tug me away. Leah Lendelle says the shark suddenly attacked while she was enjoying a beach day with her family last week. My dad was with me. He picked me up and we ran to the road. Her parents thanking a group of construction workers who just happened to be eating lunch on the beach. I noticed that it was her arm that was almost like falling off. So like instantly I figured out that it was a shark in the water. So we quickly got out of the water and then there was construction people running at the same time. And then one of them helped us uh tie her uh h arm so it stops the bleeding. The nine-year-old then airlifted to the hospital to save her hand. Doctors showing these x-rays of before and after reattaching it in emergency surgery. The shark's teeth are so so sharp that the uh you know that the cut through the the wrist is clean and not jagged and it doesn't ruin all the tissues. I didn't think she's going to have a hand. It It was really really bad. You know, it's some sort of miracle. This is just the latest incident as shark sightings soar this summer. Their migration basically goes from off the southeastern US, Gulf of Mexico in the winter, right up to here in the summertime. They'll even go past us all the way up to Canada. Now, Leah is well on the road to recovery and is able to move her fingers post surgery. And she says she will be going into the water again. Reena Roy, ABC News, New York.