But she was not disgusted, even when she had to rewrap stumps or sponge gashes that were sewn up like shark bites.
He and South African shark expert Craig Ferreira have teamed up with the crew of a Padstow fishing boat to search for a great white shark - the creature made infamous by the Hollywood blockbuster Jaws.
"I felt that however fast I swam it was really up to the shark whether he wanted to get me or not, " J.
According to Police Inspector Shawn Rutene, Strange was about 200 meters (650 feet) from the shore when he was attacked by a shark that police estimated was up to four meters (14 feet) long.
Richard Peirce, 55, from Bude in North Cornwall, has teamed up with South African shark expert Craig Ferreira to explore a 70-mile stretch of the North Cornwall coast in an attempt to locate and tag an animal.
You dive down to collect a relic out of a shipwreck and punch a mako shark in the face on the way up.
If you were scuba diving and a shark came out of the blue, I'd take my penknife and I'd end that shark's life, fix you up some hammerhead stew.
While the number of sharks being caught has not changed substantially between 2000 and 2010, the authors of the research argue that the commercial fishing fleets are simply changing location and the shark species they target in order to keep up with demand.
The beaches of north Cornwall were still open and the only signs of a shark around the north Cornwall seaside town were the blow-up kind in gift shop windows.
The tags are designed to stay on the sharks for up to five years, which will provide scientists with a fuller picture of shark behaviour.
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It featured a young woman saved from a shark by a handsome lifeguard, who subsequently ditches that lifeguard when a (male) astronaut turns up.
The 3m-long shark, which has not been definitively identified but is believed to be a Great White, came up from the bottom of the water and bit her.
Some shark species make "mental maps" of their home ranges, allowing them to pin-point destinations up to 50km (30 miles) away, research suggests.
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