A ten-year-old boy from the US was attacked by a shark, together with his leg nearly bitten off, at a resort within the Bahamas. A brand new video footage of the incident has now surfaced, which reveals the terrifying moments the boy was attacked.
The incident occurred on the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort on January 15, when the boy was collaborating in a ‘Strolling with the Sharks’ tour. The brand new footage reveals a shark instantly biting his leg and the water contained in the shark tank immediately turning pink from the blood.
“Did that simply chew him?” the boy’s mom may be heard asking on the video. “Oh my gosh, that is my son! Name 911,” she is heard screaming.
Citing witnesses, TMZ reported the boy climbed into the tank with the employees, and that two of the reef sharks inside had been aggressively swimming across the 10-year-old. Instantly, one of many two sharks darted by way of the boy’s legs, inflicting him to lose his steadiness and straddle the enormous fish.
At this level, the shark rotated towards the 10-year-old and bit his proper leg. The footage confirmed him swimming to the floor in utter distraught, even because the sharks continued to swim backwards and forwards across the boy.
The ten-year-old’s mother and father pulled him from the water and rushed him to a close-by hospital the place he’s reportedly in “steady” situation.
“A dive teacher and dive information had been within the water with the visitor when the incident occurred and instantly responded to supply medical consideration earlier than he was taken to the hospital,” Stuart Cove of ‘Blue Adventures’, the organisation that runs the shark diving programme for Atlantis, mentioned on January 17 in an announcement, CBS reported.
The ten-year-old boy, who’s from Maryland, US, was later airlifted again residence, officers informed CBS.
The Unbiased reported that the shark tank expedition web page is not obtainable on Atlantis’s web site, however a vacationer web page linked to ‘Blue Adventures’ lists the programme as obtainable for company aged 10 and older.
In an announcement, ‘Blue Adventures’ mentioned that it has began by way of inside investigation and are “absolutely cooperating with the authorities”, the Unbiased report added.
