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  • Video Shows Shark Attacking A Diver At Durban Aquarium

    10 Feb 2016 by Jasmine Stone in Animals, South Africa, Vibe, Video
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    There aren’t many details known about that video above, although evidence points to the incident having happened a few years ago at uShaka Marine World.

    You’ll need to skip to around the 1:15 mark or so to see things really kick into gear, the YouTube video having this to say about the incident:

    A scary moment is captured as a diver, who was trying to assist a pregnant, Ragga Tooth Shark, gets attacked. Luckily, the diver made a full recovery and is back in the water with no hard feelings towards the shark!

    A Google search reveals this article on SharkYear, dated 28 October 2011:

    An uShaka Marine World worker, who was bitten by a shark at the aquarium this morning, is doing well in hospital.

    Ushaka CEO Dr Mark Penning says they were doing a routine procedure on one of their Ragged Tooth sharks, when one of the divers was bitten on his arm.

    “Luckily he’s a tough guy. He’s in hospital, and he’s being very well looked after. He was more worried about not being able to go to the cricket today then what the shark did.”

    Penning says while they’ve got systems in place to look after the people who work with sharks, and other potentially dangerous animals, in rare cases things don’t work out according to plan.

    “This is not an aggressive shark, it’s not a species of shark that will deliberately go out and hunt a diver, but the animal got scared and it lashed out, and unfortunately his arm was in the way at that time.”

    Perhaps the one thing that is certainly clear is that pregnant sharks aren’t all that keen on humans grabbing their fins.

    [source:youtube]

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