Video has surfaced of the moments after a 10-year-old Maryland boy was attacked by a shark whereas vacationing within the Bahamas earlier this month.
The video, obtained by TMZ, begins by displaying the underside of the diving expertise tank earlier than it rapidly pans as much as the boy, whose blood could be seen oozing into the water at a speedy tempo.
Somebody factors to what’s taking place, whereas a shark could be seen swimming close to the boy’s legs. A person, mentioned to be the boy’s father, could be seen leaping into the tank to drag his son to security.
“So what occurred there?” a girl could be heard asking because the 21-second clip involves an finish, and pans away from the tank.
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The boy’s blood could be seen gushing into the water after he was bitten by a shark on Jan. 15, 2024. (TMZ)
The boy was taking part in a “Strolling with Sharks” tour on the Atlantis Bahamas resort on Jan. 16, “which guarantees half-hour of enjoyable for youngsters aged 10 and up with nurse and reef sharks for $110,” the New York Put up studies.
The diving expertise proprietor mentioned the next day that an inner investigation was underway.
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The video exhibits somebody pointing on the 10-year-old boy, and somebody could be heard asking what occurred. (TMZ)
“Incidents like this involving interactions with marine life, even with the species of sharks included on this expertise, are uncommon and by no means acceptable,” Stuart Cove, of Blue Adventures, mentioned in a press release. The expertise has briefly closed and the corporate is cooperating with police of their investigation.
The boy was bitten in his proper leg and brought to a hospital for remedy. He was airlifted to Maryland for continued care on Jan. 17, the Every day Mail reported.
The boy was bitten on the precise leg by a shark throughout an “expedition in a shark tank” at a resort on Paradise Island within the Bahamas. (Google Maps)
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Cove mentioned the incident is the primary of its sort for the reason that expertise started working in 2006.
The Related Press contributed to this report.