Popular spring break activity lands American tourist in hospital: 'Felt like I was in a car accident'

A fashionable outpouring interruption enactment landed a Tennessee pistillate successful the infirmary aft a freak mishap near her feeling arsenic though she had been struck by a car. 

Cierra Stockard was enjoying a tropical abrogation with friends connected March 16 erstwhile she purchased a dolphin-encounter excursion astatine Dolphin Cove, Jamaica, the parent of 2 told "Good Morning America." The experience, known arsenic the "Dolphin Royal Swim," allows visitors to person a hands-on brushwood with the marine mammals, according to the organization’s website.   

The excursion allows visitors to interact with the dolphins arsenic they "foot-push you to past splash into the h2o astatine maximum speed," the website states. Tourists are fixed the accidental to basal connected the backs of dolphins for a photograph opportunity.

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A fashionable outpouring interruption attraction near a Tennessee parent of 2 hospitalized aft she slipped and fell portion riding connected the backs of 2 dolphins successful Jamaica earlier this month. (iStock)

Stockard was enjoying her sojourn erstwhile she slipped and fell disconnected the dolphin, landing connected the animal’s fin, she told GMA. 

"The dolphin connected my near broadside was benignant of swimming a small spot faster than the dolphin connected my close side, truthful it made maine unbalanced," Stockard said. 

Jamaica Island, Montego Bay. (iStock)

The interaction of the dolphin’s fin felt similar Stockard had been deed by a car, she said, terrifying her arsenic she tried to regain her footing successful the water. 

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Cierra Stockard was being towed by 2 dolphins erstwhile she slipped and fell, landing connected the fin of 1 of the mammals portion enjoying a sojourn to Dolphin Cove successful Jamaica earlier this month. (iStock)

"It felt similar I was successful a car mishap due to the fact that it deed maine ace hard," Stockard told GMA. "I started panicking. It did sound the upwind retired of me."

Stockard believes the brace of dolphins appeared to effort to assistance her aft the fall. 

"They came and rubbed against me, and stopped their bodies from swimming to beryllium close beside me," Stockard said. 

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Stockard told GMA that the interaction of the dolphin’s fin felt arsenic though she had been "in a car accident." (iStock)

Stockard was rushed to a Montego Bay hospital, wherever she suffered from a "grapefruit-sized hematoma" and required exigency surgery. Stockard told GMA she has sickle compartment anemia, a upset of the humor that affects a person’s hemoglobin, according to the National Institutes of Health. 

Stockard traveled location to Tennessee connected March 24 – 8 days aft the incidental – and required further attraction from a adjacent hospital. 

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An aerial presumption of Montego Bay, Jamaica. (Will Twort/Jamaica Tourist Board/dpa)

"Luckily, I’m successful unchangeable information and [I’m not] each the mode connected my deathbed," Stockard said. 

Dolphin Cove did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.