{"id":1742,"date":"2010-09-06T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2010-09-09T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T14:45:02","slug":"man-found-in-sharks-belly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/man-found-in-sharks-belly","title":{"rendered":"Man Found in Shark&#8217;s Belly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1873\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"man eating shark before dissection\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shark-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shark-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shark-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shark.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The mangled remains of a human being were found inside a large tiger shark pulled from the sea by three Bahamian fishermen near Exuma.<\/p>\n<p>The fishermen were reportedly processing their day&#8217;s catch when they discovered a partially decomposed human foot in the shark&#8217;s mouth.\u00a0 They called the Royal Bahamas Defence Force who came to accompany the fishing vessel back to the Coral Harbour base.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the discovery, the fishing vessel was about 35 miles south of New Providence near the Exuma chain.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview, the Tribune newspaper reports that one of the fishermen, Bahamian investment banker Humphrey Simmons, said, &#8220;Everything was intact from the knee down, it was mangled, but there was still flesh on the bone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After dissecting the predator, additional body parts were discovered including the man&#8217;s other leg, two severed arms and a torso in two sections.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the man drowned before being devoured by the shark.<\/p>\n<p>The police have opened an investigation into the case to determine the identity of the man and the nature of his demise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mangled remains of a human being were found inside a large shark pulled from the sea by three Bahamian fishermen near Exuma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}