GMA Exclusive: Victim of Oak Island shark attack to be on GMA Thursday

One of the young victims of a pair of brutal shark attacks North Carolina spoke out from his hospital bed recently, calmly describing how he didn't see the shark until it chomped down on his arm and "got that off," according to videos released by the hospital July 16.

Hunter Treschl, 16, lost part of his arm in the attack on June 14 off the coast of Oak Island, North Carolina, but he said he won't let the traumatic incident get him down, vowing instead to "fight and live a normal life," ABC News reported on June 16.

Good Morning America will air air an exclusive interview Thursday morning on ABC/WSOC-TV.

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A 12-year-old girl, Kiersten Yow, also lost an arm in a similar attack in the area just 90 minutes before. Her family said that she was expected to be able to keep one of her legs, which was also injured in the attack.

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Treschl said that he was in waist-deep water playing with his cousin when he felt a "hit" on his left leg.

"Then I felt it ... one more time and it kind of hit my arm and that was the first I saw it when it was biting up my left arm kind of," he calmly recounted from his hospital bed after the attack at New Hanover Regional Medical Center NC.

Tune in for the full interview.

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