“It was a pretty big bite – but it didn’t do any tearing,” she told ABC News.

This is first shark attack in Isle of Palms this year, officials said.

“He’s lucky its not a whole lot worse – he’ll have a story to tell,” Graham said.

News of the bite comes on the same day that a 68 year-old man was bitten by a shark in North Carolina, the seventh shark attack that state has seen this year.

Source: ABC News US Teen Bitten by Shark Off Isle of Palms, South Carolina