I was bitten by a shark and filmed the whole thing heres why Im not complaining

This shark was hungry for the spotlight.Lilian Tagliari, a travel influencer known as @lilian.has.travelbug on social media, revealed the horrifying moment a shark bit her during her ocean exploration in the Maldives in a recent video with more than 18 million views on Instagram alone.“As I came back up, this shark decided to take a nibble.I thought, ‘just my luck’ because it happens so rarely,” the influencer said.Even underwater, Tagliari can be heard screaming in terror in the clip.The Brazilian native, who currently resides in Australia, was swimming among 50 nurse sharks when one of them sunk its teeth into her right leg.“We had [swam] with them for a good hour, then I decided to go back to our boat.

Then the [water] conditions got better and I thought ‘Oh, a few more dives won’t hurt,'” Tagliari shared.Unfortunately for her, it did hurt.Though her skin was pierced open with blood oozing out, Tagliari still had sympathy for the shark’s behavior.“The boats do throw fish where they are, and because nurse sharks have very bad eyesight, that one just thought my leg was a piece of fish,” she explained.Tagliari uploaded snippets of her injuries showing the bite marks on both sides of her leg.“I did have to take antibiotics in case of any bacterial infection,” she said.

“I got a sore leg for a few days.”Tagliari’s viewers were notably gobsmacked as conveyed by their comments, yet the brave swimmer remains unbothered, referring to the experience as just a “little accident.”“It was just a weird little accident that left me some cute scars… tawny (nurse sharks) very rarely bite humans, and the bite is more like a suction…so no limbs missing, just another story to tell,” she wrote on her Instagram post.Nurse sharks are an inshore bottom-dwelling species native to the tropical and subtropical coasts of the Eastern Atlantic, Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific.They typically feed on small fish and marine invertebrates but are ...