A grey nurse shark bite - who would have thought?

In what turned out to be a huge surprise, Eli Zawadzki who was bitten by a shark near Pyramids Beach at Dawesville, just south of Mandurah in Western Australia headed off for surgery to remove a tooth embedded in his foot.

The retrieved tooth identified the culprit as a grey nurse shark when most thought a bull shark was to blame. This is the first recorded case of a grey nurse shark biting anyone in Western Australia. Hunted mercilessly in the 1950s due to its fearsome appearance, the grey nurse shark is now firmly entrenched in the critically endangered list. The grey nurse shark is known as a pretty docile creature despite its top of the food chain predator appearance, I certainly held no fear diving with them.