Two best friends from Viera, Florida, were both bitten by a bull shark while vacationing in The Bahamas earlier this month.

The Brevard County women jumped off a friend’s boat in Bimini Bay and were both promptly bitten by a bull shark.

Decker, 20, and her friend Summer Layman, 24, went to the Bahamas on Feb. 7. On the first day, they went to the Caribbean on ...

Rileigh Decker and Summer Layman were both hospitalized after the Feb. 7 attack in Bimini Bay Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism ...

Two friends have spoken out after being attacked by a shark while holidaying in the Bahamas. Rileigh Decker and Summer Layman ...

Two friends from Melbourne, Florida, Rileigh Decker and Summer Layman, were bitten by a shark while swimming in the Bahamas.

Layman thought she was going to die after a shark attacked her and her friend Rileigh Decker while they were enjoying a swim in the Bahamas while on holiday ...

A dream vacation in the Bahamas for two young American tourists turned into a nightmare when they jumped into the sparkling ...

Two Central Florida women who were injured in a shark attack while swimming in the Bahamas are now recovering in Brevard ...

Two American tourists were injured, one seriously, in a shark attack while swimming in the Bimini island chain in the Bahamas ...

Rileigh Decker and Summer Layman had jumped off their friend's boat in Bimini Bay together on Friday and were swimming back when the attack occurred. "We were swimming to the ladder, and I kind of ...

It destroyed my leg basically. It severed my Achilles. My artery is severed, my nerve is severed,” one of the victims told ...