According to Fox News, a boy from Maryland who was attacked by a shark on Monday while on a shark tank excursion at a resort in the Bahamas is fortunate to be alive.
A shark attacked the 10-year-old boy on Paradise Island at approximately 4 p.m. EST while he was “participating in an expedition in a shark tank at a local resort,” according to a statement from the Royal Bahamas Police Force. The incident turned the boy’s vacation into a nightmare.
Preliminary reports state that the young explorer was bitten in his right leg during the dangerous attack. He was transported to the hospital, where his condition is currently stable.
The Maryland boy has not been identified by the police, and they have stated that the circumstances of the incident.
Only one month has passed since a Massachusetts woman lost her life while on vacation in the Bahamas due to a shark attack that happened 10 years ago.
The previous time Lauren Erickson Van Wart, 44, was paddleboarding with a relative less than a mile off the western end of New Providence Island when she was bitten by a shark, resulting in serious injuries.
Gavin Naylor, the director of the International Shark Attack File program in Florida, estimates that there are thirty to forty different shark species in the Bahamas. The sharks that bite the most frequently are the black tip shark, tiger shark, bull shark, and Caribbean reef shark.
Usually, the bite was unintentional. They believe it to be something else,” he remarked. “Once in a while, they’ll actually single out people, and it’s very intentional.”
