A LIFEGUARD is fighting for his life after being savagely mauled by a shark at a popular beach.
Chance Swanson, 33, was spotted unconscious in the water by terrified beachgoers who said he was surrounded by a pool of blood.
Chance was hauled out of the water and found to have severe bite wounds on his left leg.
He was out surfing with his friends in an area called the “Middles” near to Kauai on his day off from work when the tiger shark attack unfolded.
Chance stayed out on the water as his friends went back to shore before he was pulled under.
Kauai Ocean Safety Bureau Chief Kalani Vierra told WBTW that lifeguards noticed a pool of blood in the water.
Vierra said: “The lifeguards looked with the binoculars and noticed that Chance was floating on his back with a big red stain around him.
“They went out immediately, and obviously they noticed that he was attacked by shark, and they put on a tourniquet right away.”
First responders treated him on the beach as he was “going in and out of consciousness”.
His worried mum Rose Keaweamahi-Hoovler told Hawaii News Now: “The doctors are promising a good outcome, but only time could tell.
“It’s like the worst news a mother can receive that your son was bitten by a shark and it wasn’t good.
“Just chills. I started panicking and just went straight to Wilcox Hospital.”