Terrifying moment a man is dragged overboard as shark chomps on his hand

This is the terrifying moment a fisherman was dragged overboard by a shark chomping on his hand.

The incident occurred in the waters of Everglades National Park, Florida, US, on Friday morning (June 23), when the unsuspecting man was attacked and required a hospital visit, according to authorities.

Sometime before 10.20 am the victim was spending his morning on a boat in the Florida Bay near the Flamingo Marina.

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Allyson Gantt, a spokesperson for the national park, said that while the man was washing his hands in the water, the shark attacked, biting his hand.

A park ranger treated his wounds before he was airlifted to a nearby hospital by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, MDFR said.

Video shared on Instagram shows a fisherman, who may be the victim in Friday’s attack, being pulled into the murky Everglades water by a shark who latched on to his hand.

According to the University of Florida’s Program for Shark Research website, this would be categorized as an unprovoked attack, which is common.

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Recently filming for Sir David Attenborough 's latest series, Our Planet II, took a scary turn when the crew were attacked by sharks in terrifying back-to-back encounters, the director of the Netflix docu-series has revealed.

In an attack described "like something out of Jaws", two huge tiger sharks sank their teeth into the crew's inflatable boats as they filmed in a remote region of the Northwestern Hawaiian islands.

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They had a narrow escape after being forced to make an emergency landing on the sand when the beasts "exploded" the boat.

The "horrific" incident happened during the filming of the first episode of the four-part series, which was released on the streaming platform on June 14.

Recalling the horrifying ordeal, producer and director Toby Nowlan told Radio Times : "This ’v’ of water came streaming towards us and this tiger shark leapt at the boat and bit huge holes in it. The whole boat exploded.

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