Terrifying video of a shark attacking a snorkeler goes viral
A nurse shark bit a free diver in the Maldives, leaving the woman with a six-inch-wide mark on her shoulder blade. Credit: @the_sharkguy on InstagramA free diver named Carmen Canovas Cervello was"We decided to do a free dive trip to shark bay and snorkel inside a group of sharks," Ibrahim Shafeeg, the person who filmed the video, said, via the New York Post.
A warning sign for great white shark biting incidents at Newcomb Hollow Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.was circling Cervello — who, coincidentally, is a nurse — the shark bit her on the left shoulder blade, leaving a six-inch-wide mark. Shafeeg, who goes by"The Shark Guy" on social media, posted the video to his Instagram account to let his followers know that"accidents happen" while swimming with sharks.
"It is highly recommended that divers do not try to feed nurse sharks while swimming with them…Accident happens during freedive at shark point while feeding…Take precautions while swimming with sharks," he wrote."It was not that much," she said in another comment.notes that Cervello didn't even seek medical treatment immediately following the incident and continued her snorkeling.
"After the shark bite, we thought nothing major about it as it was only a minor injury so we cleaned the wound and continued snorkeling at the same spot again," said Shafeeg.
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