Marine biologist Mauricio Hoyos is sticking up for the shark that bit him . The 48-year-old Mexican scientist was seriously injured while tagging sharks off Costa Rica’s.
Marine biologist Mauricio Hoyos is sticking up for the shark that bit him. The 48-year-old Mexican scientist was seriously injured while tagging sharks off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast as part of a conservation project. After successfully attaching a tag to the dorsal fin of a female Galapagos shark, Hoyos suddenly found his entire head inside her jaws. “She turned sideways in my direction; it was really fast”, he tells the New York Times. “It was wide open; my whole head was inside of her mouth in less than a second.”
“I heard a cracking sound, but it was just pressure”, he says.
