UK Shark Attack!

An fisherman was taken to hospital after a shark lashed out at him, puncturing his arm causing some heavy bleeding.

The 39-year-old local man was fishing two miles south of the Mewstone Rock when the incident happened at around 12.50pm. He is believed to have landed a spur dog, a small deep water shark with a sharp spine on the dorsal fin.

Dave Milford, who went out to recover the man, said: “He’d brought it on board the boat and had been taking the hook out when the spine punctured his right fore arm. “There was a lot of blood – it looked like it could have punctured an artery.”

After receiving a call from the boat, the Plymouth lifeboat attended the scene, bandaged the injured man’s arm and took him off the boat. The Plymouth coastguard team got him ashore at the lifeboat station ay Millbay and he was taken to Derriford Hospital by ambulance.

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