Moment snorkeler bitten by 220lb shark off Maldives coast
- last year
A shocking video has captured the moment a 200-pound nurse shark launched a scuba diver in the Maldives, causing a six-inch bite mark.
Carmen Canovas Cervello was in the bay at Vaavu Atoll swimming with sharks for over 45 minutes when disaster struck, injuring her shoulder and upper-back.
“There were around ten nurse sharks, from 198-pounds to 220-pounds and over three-metres wide", she said.
“After the shark bite, we thought nothing major about it as it was only a minor injury so we cleaned the wound and continued snorkelling at the same spot again.”
Carmen Canovas Cervello was in the bay at Vaavu Atoll swimming with sharks for over 45 minutes when disaster struck, injuring her shoulder and upper-back.
“There were around ten nurse sharks, from 198-pounds to 220-pounds and over three-metres wide", she said.
“After the shark bite, we thought nothing major about it as it was only a minor injury so we cleaned the wound and continued snorkelling at the same spot again.”