Moment snorkeler bitten by 220lb shark off Maldives coast

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.”

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