When Brett Johnson, a 30-year-old scuba diving instructor in the Cayman Islands, took a group out for a dive, he found something unexpected: a nurse shark doing exactly what nurse sharks always do. What was unexpected, though, was the fact that it had a massive knife embedded in its head.
“At first it looked like it was just sleeping as most nurse sharks usually are,” he told the Cayman Compass. “But then we noticed something coming out of its head.”
What Johnson did next was high amazing. He swam calmly down to the shark and pulled the large knife from the top of its head.
“I can’t say what happened or why it ended up getting knifed in the head, but fortunately it came out easy enough and the shark seems to be doing all right,” Johnson continued. “It was seen again on Wednesday swimming around the same reef.”
