Shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton is making an pressing plea on behalf of her family.

The expert surfer shared Oct. 12 that her nephew Andrew, 3, had been hospitalized after drowning and wanted aid from a scientific examiner.

“HELP,” the 34-365 days-frail wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of the boy serving to to assign a surf board. “My precious nephew turn into as soon as medivaced to kapiolani in Oahu this morning after drowning final night. He quiet has a heartbeat and has fight in him.”

Bethany, who has two older brothers, persevered, “We’re wrecked. But I know the procedure upright scientific enhance can create or wreck any individual’s likelihood of survival and on this case we’re soliciting for aid from any individual who has recordsdata of what we’re going to enact to give my nephew the greatest likelihood.”

Bethany, a mom of 4 who documented her harrowing myth of surviving a 2003 shark attack that impress her her left arm in a 2004 memoir and the 2011 movie Soul Surfer, shared her post on her eldest brother Noah Hamilton's Instagram.

The 42-365 days-frail issued a separate plea on his social media and supplied extra valuable aspects about the incident.

“Join us in prayer for my brother’s fifth youngest child Andrew as he turn into as soon as life flighted to Oahu in the center of the night,” he wrote on Facebook Oct. 12. “He’s 3.5 going on 5. He’s a solid resilient kid and an wonderful swimmer. He turn into as soon as stumbled on no longer breathing in shallow water of bath bathtub. His vitals maintain been ample to get him to oahu.”

“Join us in prayer for my brother’s fifth youngest child Andrew as he turn into as soon as life flighted to Oahu in the center of the night,” he wrote on Facebook Oct. 12. “He’s 3.5 going on 5. He’s a solid resilient kid and an wonderful swimmer. He turn into as soon as stumbled on no longer breathing in shallow water of bath bathtub. His vitals maintain been ample to get him to oahu.”

Bethany in the period in-between as much as this level her Instagram post to uncover that that the family had gotten in contact with Dr. Paul Harch, who operates a hyperbaric oxygen therapy health facility in Contemporary Orleans and has eminent on his web remark he has treated patients who suffered drowning accidents.

Bethany shared any other exchange Oct. 13. “Please pray for Andrew and all his cherished ones,” she wrote in the feedback section of her post. “Pray that we’re going to enact our absolute most real looking thru this arduous time. Powerful bask in.”