A man was airlifted to a South Florida hospital yesterday after being bitten by a shark off West End, Grand Bahama.
The United States Coast Guard said Jim Abernethy, 55, was on a diving excursion with the commercial diving vessel ‘Shear Water’ when he was bitten on the arm. The incident occurred 18 miles north of West End, the Coast Guard said.
Abernethy’s family-owned business (Jim Abernethy's Scuba Adventures) operates scuba dive charters from West Palm Beach, Florida, according to the company’s website.
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Clearwater, Florida, deployed in support of Operation Bahamas Turks and Caicos (OPBAT) locate ...

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