Shark Watch: Triathlete dragged underwater during shark blitz: 'You don't have an arm...Why are you laughing?'

Chuck Anderson recounted his 2000 encounter with a bull shark, which severely injured him during an attack in Alabama while the triathlete was training.

"She said, 'Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, you don't have an arm' … and asked why I was laughing … I got attacked four separate times by a shark, and I'm standing here on the beach talking to you." Chris Eberhart is a crime and US news reporter for Fox News Digital. Email tips to chris.eberhart@fox.com or on Twitter @ChrisEberhart48.

Anderson said he put his face underwater to see what hit him. "When I did, I saw the shark coming from the bottom at me again."

"I threw my hands towards him, and he snapped and took all four fingers off my right hand," Anderson said. " I held my right hand up in the air, tried to back paddle towards the beach with my left hand ... I saw all the blood around me, and I thought, 'Oh goodness. This is not gonna be good."