Carmen Canovas Cervello, 30, was diving at Vaavu Atoll in the island paradise nation with a pal a 220-pound (eight-foot-long) shark sank its teeth into a snorkeller, leaving her with a grizzly six-inch wound on her side in the Maldives.
Dramatic footage shows the creature circling the bikini-clad tourist before it suddenly turned and attacked her.
Cervello and friend Ibrahim Shafeeg, 37, an underwater photographer who captured the astonishing footage, had been swimming freely with the school of sharks for over 45 minutes before disaster struck.
In the shocking footage, it appeared one shark decided that they were too close for comfort and showed its dominance by clamping its teeth down on Cervello’s shoulder and upper back.
Even though it was only for a brief moment, the determined creature left a sizable mark of around six inches in diameter on the diver’s body.
Mr Shafeeg captured the shocking attack unexpectedly as he was filming the sharks around him with his GoPro camera.
Both Mr Shafeeg and Ms Cervello immediately jumped out of the water to check the damage inflicted on her shoulder and back by the bite-happy creature.
Once out of the water near the Dhiggiri resort in Vaavu Atoll, the pair cleaned the wound while examining how severe it was.
Despite the attack, the daredevil duo felt as though the wound was given by the sharks as a warning for getting too close, as they believed the bite as only a minor injury that could have easily been a lot worse.
Surprisingly, the woman decided to jump back in for a second dip immediately after she cleaned the wound left by the disgruntled nurse shark.
Cervello didn’t feel as though she needed to seek any medical help or treatment, so the pair decided to continue snorkelling and diving with the sharks for days, leaving the bite to heal for itself.
