A 15-year-old Long Beach girl is still recovering from a sea lion attack that happened while she was swimming over the weekend.

"My initial reaction was, 'I'm getting eaten in the middle of the water, it's a shark, I'm going to die,'" Phoebe Beltran ...

"All I'm thinking is, 'Please, don't be a shark. Please, don't take off my arm, and please, don't kill me,'" Phoebe Beltran ...

Teen girl attacked by sea lion in Long Beach thought she was encountering a shark - Phoebe Beltran was due to take a swim ...

Phoebe Beltran was in the homestretch of her 1,000-yard swim when she suddenly felt an intense pain as the sea lion bit her ...