FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: In New Orleans, several children were among 10 people who had to swim for their lives in a shark-infested tank. They all fell in after a platform collapsed. We have a report on that from Dawn Ostrom of CNN affiliate WGNO.</s>ERIN ROONEY, FELL IN SHARK TANK: It just broke. Everybody just fell. I don't really -- I just saw people falling in.</s>DAWN OSTROM, WGNO REPORTER (voice-over): Erin Rooney has wet clothes and a scrape on her foot from a barnacle that she fell into the tank -- with nurse sharks and sand tiger sharks with her sister, her 5-year-old cousin and 2-year-old niece.</s>E. ROONEY: I didn't really even think about the sharks. I just wanted to get out of the water.</s>OSTROM: Her mother and father were watching from dry ground.</s>DAN ROONEY, ERIN'S DAD: And I was just praying none of the sharks got agitated from all the splashing and everything. They have got sharks in there bigger than me.</s>OSTROM: The 2-year-old and 5-year-old went to the hospital with a couple of bumps and scrapes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was a serious thing falling into a tank. But thank goodness no one got hurt seriously. Michael</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's kind of frightening.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm not going over that thing again.</s>OSTROM: Erin Rooney says fear probably won't hit for now. She has a story to tell her friends.</s>E. ROONEY: I was swimming with the sharks.</s>WHITFIELD: That report from Dawn Ostrom of CNN affiliate WGNO. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Visitors Swim for Lives in Shark Tank Accident