A California nurse was brutally attacked by a shark while she was snorkeling off the Galápagos Islands – as harrowing video caught her being evacuated and later exercising her heavily stitched leg.

The shark bit Steve Bruemmer, 62, of Monterey, at 10:35 a.m. on June 22, when he was swimming about 150 yards off Lovers Point, a popular beach area in Pacific Grove.

The nurse shark was hooked on a line that was tangled on an artificial reef off Florida. FOX 5 After hearing reports about the stuck hark, Felde and a friend swam out to try and rescue it.

The expedition to Santa Elena Bay was funded by a grant from the Stanford Woods Institute for the environment. The team used drones to study Pacific Nurse Sharks and their habitat.

The shark, tagged in May 2019, ... These findings were published in the “Long-distance dispersal of the endangered Pacific nurse shark (Ginglymostoma unami, Orectolobiformes) in Costa Rica revealed ...

The New England Aquarium in Boston now has a new nurse shark — the first one in 10 years. Cirri, a 3.5 foot, 22 pound female nurse shark, can be seen in the aquarium's Caribbean coral reef exhibit.

A camera tag on a nurse shark captured unexpected footage of a great white shark. Great white sharks migrate south to Florida and the Gulf during winter for warmer waters and food.