{"id":13506,"date":"2025-12-08T11:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13506"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:19:01","slug":"shipwreck-survivor-who-saw-her-friend-get-eaten-by-a-shark-recalls-horrifying-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13506","title":{"rendered":"Shipwreck survivor who saw her friend get eaten by a shark recalls horrifying detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"235\">In August 1981, a day on the water near Ormond Beach, Florida turned into a fight for survival for 21-year-old Tamara Ennis and her three friends.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"237\" data-end=\"463\">Caught in a sudden storm, their 17-foot catamaran flipped three miles from shore, leaving them clinging to a pontoon with no life jackets in shark-infested waters. When the Coast Guard passed without seeing them, panic set in.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"465\" data-end=\"657\">At dawn, Tamara \u2014 a strong swimmer \u2014 urged the group to try swimming to shore. But just an hour in, 19-year-old Christy Wapniarski was attacked and killed by a shark, her body never recovered.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"659\" data-end=\"872\">Tamara kept swimming alone for hours, refusing to give up even when a shark bumped into her. Battling currents and fear, she finally reached the shore and alerted rescuers. Randy and Daniel were later found alive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"874\" data-end=\"1024\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Tamara says surviving the ordeal changed her forever: <em data-start=\"928\" data-end=\"1024\" data-is-last-node=\"\">\u201cDying wasn\u2019t an option \u2014 I focused on every minute, every breath, and never gave in to fear.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-2eeb417b820bad4b2fbc7f21224ae176\" class=\"newsner-2eeb417b820bad4b2fbc7f21224ae176 newsner-amp_article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rll-youtube-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YPsLEKPOHzE\" data-id=\"YPsLEKPOHzE\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-alt=\"Shipwrecked Survivor Watches Her Friend Get Eaten by a Shark | I Survived | A&amp;E\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YPsLEKPOHzE?autoplay=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 1981, a day on the water near Ormond Beach, Florida turned into a fight for survival for 21-year-old Tamara Ennis and her three friends. Caught in a sudden storm, their 17-foot catamaran flipped three miles from shore, leaving them clinging to a pontoon with no life jackets in shark-infested waters. When the Coast&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13506\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Shipwreck survivor who saw her friend get eaten by a shark recalls horrifying detail&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13508,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506\/revisions\/13508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}