The families of the two North Carolina shark attack victims have released statements of the harrowing incidents as one of the victims spoke about his experience for the first time following the shark attack.

One of the North Carolina shark attack victims, Hunter Treschl, 16, spoke of his experience while on his hospital bed. In a video released by New Hanover Regional Medical Center in North Carolina Tuesday night, Treschl bravely and calmly described how the shark came out of nowhere and started chomping off his arm.

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Treschl's shark attack took place off the Oak Island coast in North Carolina Sunday. The 16-year-old lost part of his arm because of the attack but said the traumatic incident will not get in the way of him having a "normal life."

In the hospital videos, he recounted that the shark attack happened as he was playing in waist-deep water. He was with his cousin when there was 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," Treschl said. "Then it got that off."

He quickly got off the water and went to the shore with his cousin's help after the attack.

"I didn't see it coming," he added.

The boy said he was conscious the whole time, as well as when he was surrounded by 25 people inside the hospital following the shark attack.

"So I kind of have two options . . . I can try to live my life the way I was and make an effort to do that even though I don't have an arm or I can kind of just let this be completely debilitating," he stated bravely. "Out of those two, there's really only one that I would choose to do and that's to try and fight and live a normal life with the cards I've been dealt."

Meanwhile, the family of the other North Carolina shark attack victim Kiersten Yow, 12, said in a statement that she is expected to keep one of her legs. The attack on Yow occurred in the same area just 90 minutes prior to Treschl's, according to ABC News.

The 12-year-old had also been in waist-deep water when the shark bit her off below her left arm and injured her left leg badly, reported The New York Daily News.

Fortunately, bystanders at the beach were able to perform immediate first aid that saved both Kiersten's and Hunter's lives, according to EMS officials.

The families of both children made their statements Tuesday, according to WYFF4.com.

Yow's parents, Brian and Laurie, said in their statement that Kiersten is now in stable condition and has been receiving excellent care from New Hanover Regional Center in Wilmington.

"She has a long road to recovery that will include surgeries and rehabilitation, but her doctors at UNC expect she will keep her leg, and for that we are grateful," they added.

Sarah Treschl, Hunter's mother, also thanked everyone who has cared for her son, from the people who saved him through their quick actions on the beach to the transport crew, emergency department team, doctors and staff at New Hanover Regional Medical Center.

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