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    The nurse shark bite Carmen Canovas Cervello on the shoulder and back. Vaavu Atoll, MALDIVES: A SHOCKING VIDEO captured a 200-pound nurse shark taking a bite out of a scuba-diver leaving her with a six-inch wide grizzly bite but amazingly the tough lady jumped back in for a dip with the sharks immediately after she cleaned the wound. The video was captured by freediver and underwater photographer Ibrahim Shafeeg (37) from the Maldives who videoed his friend, nurse Carmen Canovas Cervello (30) get bitten by a 220-pound nurse shark, leaving a six-inch wide gruesome bite. Ibrahim and Canovas went diving in the shark bay at Vaavu Atoll in the Maldives, where they came across around ten nurse sharks swimming freely around them. Both adventurers were only in scuba-diving gear and swam freely with the three-metre wide sharks for over 45-minutes before disaster struck. One shark decided that they were too close for comfort and showed their dominance by biting Canovas on her shoulder and upper back. Even though it was only for a brief moment, the determined creature left a sizable mark of around six-inches in diameter on the diver?s body. Ibrahim captured the shocking attack unexpectedly while filming the sharks around him using a GoPro Hero 9. The bite happened so quickly that both Ibrahim and Canovas jumped out of the water to check what damage had been done to Canovas? shoulder and back by the bite-happy creature. Once out of the body of water near the Dhiggiri resort in Vaavu Atoll, the pair cleaned the wound while examining how severe it was. The daredevil pair felt as though the wound was given by the sharks as a warning for getting too close, as they believed the bite as only a minor injury that could have easily been a lot worse. Amazingly within seconds, the unfazed pair decided they would dive right back into the shark infested waters once again to resume their diving experience. Canovas didn?t feel as though she needed to seek any medical help or treatment, so the pair decided to continue snorkelling and diving with the sharks for days, leaving the bite to heal for itself. Nurse sharks are common in the Vaavu Atoll region of the Maldives, as it is a common place for the sharks to seek food from the different tourist attractions surrounding the area. Nurse Sharks are usually non-aggressive and have been known to swim away when approached, but if they are provoked in any way, their bite can be life-threatening due to their extremely sharp teeth and strong jaw. Although the nurse shark is portrayed as one of the non-aggressive sharks, according to reports before 2022, there were around 51 provoked and five unprovoked attacks from nurse sharks. This was the first time Canovas had received a shark bite, but that hasn?t stopped the pair from diving head-first into the dangerous waters once again to experience being so up-close and personal with the sharks in their natural habitat. ?We were in the shark bay at Vaavu Atoll diving with nurse sharks,? he said. ?We decided to do a free dive trip to shark bay and snorkel inside a group of sharks there. ?There were around ten nurse sharks, from 198-pounds to 220-pounds and over three-metres wide. ?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.? ENDS mediadrumimages/Ibrahim Shafeeg

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    This is the frightening minute a shark took a portion out of a traveler– who returned in the water directly after.

    Carmen Canovas Cervello, 30, was snorkeling at Vaavu Atoll in the Maldiveswhen the 220 pound shark secured its jaws around her side.

    Footage reveals the 8-foot-long nurse shark circling around the swimmer prior to all of a sudden assaulting her.

    The attack was shot by Carmen’s buddy Ibrahim Shafeeg, 37, an undersea professional photographer.

    Pictures reveal an injury around 6 inches in size throughout Carmen’s shoulder and upper back.

    But after cleaning up the injury, Carmen leapt directly back into the water for a 2nd dip.

    The set felt the shark was alerting them to not get too close– and the injury might have quickly been much even worse.

    Carmen even felt the injury was okay enough to be dealt with by a doctor.

    The nurse shark bite Carmen Canovas Cervello on the shoulder and back (Picture: mediadrumimages/Ibrahim Shafeeg)

    Carmen Canovas Cervello works as a nurse. Vaavu Atoll, MALDIVES: A SHOCKING VIDEO captured a 200-pound nurse shark taking a bite out of a scuba-diver leaving her with a six-inch wide grizzly bite but amazingly the tough lady jumped back in for a dip with the sharks immediately after she cleaned the wound. The video was captured by freediver and underwater photographer Ibrahim Shafeeg (37) from the Maldives who videoed his friend, nurse Carmen Canovas Cervello (30) get bitten by a 220-pound nurse shark, leaving a six-inch wide gruesome bite. Ibrahim and Canovas went diving in the shark bay at Vaavu Atoll in the Maldives, where they came across around ten nurse sharks swimming freely around them. Both adventurers were only in scuba-diving gear and swam freely with the three-metre wide sharks for over 45-minutes before disaster struck. One shark decided that they were too close for comfort and showed their dominance by biting Canovas on her shoulder and upper back. Even though it was only for a brief moment, the determined creature left a sizable mark of around six-inches in diameter on the diver?s body. Ibrahim captured the shocking attack unexpectedly while filming the sharks around him using a GoPro Hero 9. The bite happened so quickly that both Ibrahim and Canovas jumped out of the water to check what damage had been done to Canovas? shoulder and back by the bite-happy creature. Once out of the body of water near the Dhiggiri resort in Vaavu Atoll, the pair cleaned the wound while examining how severe it was. The daredevil pair felt as though the wound was given by the sharks as a warning for getting too close, as they believed the bite as only a minor injury that could have easily been a lot worse. Amazingly within seconds, the unfazed pair decided they would dive right back into the shark infested waters once again to resume their diving experience. Canovas didn?t feel as though she needed to seek any medical help or treatment, so the pair decided to continue snorkelling and diving with the sharks for days, leaving the bite to heal for itself. Nurse sharks are common in the Vaavu Atoll region of the Maldives, as it is a common place for the sharks to seek food from the different tourist attractions surrounding the area. Nurse Sharks are usually non-aggressive and have been known to swim away when approached, but if they are provoked in any way, their bite can be life-threatening due to their extremely sharp teeth and strong jaw. Although the nurse shark is portrayed as one of the non-aggressive sharks, according to reports before 2022, there were around 51 provoked and five unprovoked attacks from nurse sharks. This was the first time Canovas had received a shark bite, but that hasn?t stopped the pair from diving head-first into the dangerous waters once again to experience being so up-close and personal with the sharks in their natural habitat. ?We were in the shark bay at Vaavu Atoll diving with nurse sharks,? he said. ?We decided to do a free dive trip to shark bay and snorkel inside a group of sharks there. ?There were around ten nurse sharks, from 198-pounds to 220-pounds and over three-metres wide. ?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.? ENDS mediadrumimages/Ibrahim Shafeeg

    The bite did not stop Carmen from leaping directly back into the water (Picture: mediadrumimages/Ibrahim Shafeeg)

    So the unfazed set dived directly back into the shark-infested waters.

    ‘We were in the shark bay at Vaavu Atoll diving with nurse sharks,’ Shafeeg stated.

    ‘We chose to do a complimentary dive journey to shark bay and snorkel inside a group of sharks there.

    ‘There were around 10 nurse sharks, from 198- pounds to 220- pounds and over 3 metres large.

    ‘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.’

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