Marlin Wakeman, 24, fell into a "shark den" after misjudging a jump on a Bahamas dock last month, with one bite narrowly missing his femoral artery, a doctor said.

Marlin Wakeman, a 24-year-old deckhand from Florida, had a terrifying encounter with a pair of reef sharks after slipping off a fishing dock in the Bahamas on April 26. Wakeman was working on a charter boat when he misjudged a jump on the dock and fell into the water around Flying Fish Marina on Long Island where people are known to attract the sharks with scraps thrown in by fishermen to keep them as pets.