HOW TEEN FOUGHT GIANT MANEATER AT TEXAS BEACH

A FEISTY teenager celebrating her high school graduation was attacked by a shark that latched its powerful jaws onto her hand in shallow water at a Texas beach- and she fought off the beast by pummeling it with her free fist!

The frantic punch-out saved the life of Damiana Humphrey, 19, who was splashing in the surf with her siblings when the five-foot shark tried to drag her into the deep.

"As I was turning, a shark grabbed a hold of my hand," says the Oklahoma grad, who was on a family vacation in Galveston. "I looked down and there was a shark attached to my hand, so I guess I started punching it! That part is kind of blurry to me."