Terrifying Moment Huge 220-Pound Shark Lodges Teeth Into Nurse

Footage captured the Jaws-dropping moment when a giant shark took a bite out of a diver’s back, leaving her with a gruesome 6-inch-wide wound.

Nurse and influencer Carmen Canovas Cervello, 30, was struck by the beast while freediving with photographer Ibrahim Shafeeg.

Marine photographer and freediver Ibrahim Shafeeg, 37, who filmed the gruesome attack on his GoPro, told Media Drum World:

“We decided to do a free dive trip to shark bay and snorkel inside a group of sharks,” 

Cervello’s bite measured 6 inches in diameter. mediadrumimages/Ibrahim Shafeeg

Shafeeg frequently posts spellbinding underwater footage to his nearly 65,000 followers on TikTok, where he is known as “The Shark Guy.”

The large wound from the six-inch Nurse Shark's jaws can be seen bleeding profusely in the shot that the photographer captured the action.

Cervello gets bitten by the shark. mediadrumimages/Ibrahim Shafeeg

The two Maldivians cleansed the wound after getting it out of the ocean close to the Dhiggiri resort in Vaavu Atoll.

They had been swimming in the region for 45 minutes before the accident, and they felt as though the wound was provided by the sharks as a warning for getting too close, as they considered the bite was only a small damage that could have easily been much worse.

Shafeeg Added:

“There were around ten nurse sharks, from 198 pounds to 220 pounds,”

Ibrahim Shafeeg, who caught the attack on camera. mediadrumimages/Ibrahim Shafeeg

The woman, however, was not intimidated and soon after fighting off the beast, she returned to the sea.

The shark bite in question. mediadrumimages/Ibrahim Shafeeg

Shafeeg 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 snorkeling at the same spot again,”

The pair decided to keep snorkeling and scuba diving with the sharks for days, allowing the bite to heal on its own, because Canovas didn't feel the need for any medical attention or treatment.

Although nurse sharks are typically non-aggressive and have been observed to swim away when approached, their bite can be fatal if provoked in any manner due to their deadly sharp teeth and powerful jaw.

Up until 2022, there had been about 51 provoked and five unprovoked attacks by nurse sharks documented.

Watch the video:

Carmen Canovas Cervello works as a nurse. mediadrumimages/Ibrahim Shafeeg

This was the first time Canovas had been bitten by a shark, but that hasn't prevented the couple from wearing life jackets once more and plunging into the turbulent waters to get a closer look at the sharks in their natural environment.

Shafeeg said:

“We were in the shark bay at Vaavu Atoll diving with nurse sharks.

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 snorkeling at the same spot again.”