A fisherman was airlifted to hospital after being bitten on the leg by a shark landed on a boat off the Cornish coast. The porbeagle shark was hauled up by the crew of the Govenek of Ladram in a net more than 100 miles off Land’s End. Maritime&Coastguard (@MCA_media) #HMCoastguard praise actions of fishing crew after one of them was bitten by a #Porbeagle shark onboard their vessel 107nm west of #LandsEnd. A year ago, he was pictured with a porbeagle shark that had also got caught in the nets. They all had each other’s backs.”According to the Marine Conservation Society, a porbeagle shark is usually 2-3 metres long.

Source: The Guardian May 14, 2018 16:20 UTC