09-07-2010, 07:10 PM
NASSAU, Bahamas - Cops are trying to identify human remains found in a tiger shark’s stomach.
Police were conducting DNA tests on the two legs, two arms and severed torso found inside the 12-foot shark, said Assistant Police Commissioner Glenn Miller.
He said the remains appeared to be a couple of days old. It was unclear whether the person was dead or alive when eaten by the shark. The tiger shark can swim long distances. Miller said at least two people have been reported missing recently in the Bahamas. He also didn’t rule out the possibility that the remains are those of a migrant whose boat might have capsized en route to Florida. Three sport fishermen made the grim find Saturday after hooking the tiger shark. One of the fishermen, Bahamian investment banker Humphrey Simmons, said the remains were a man’s.
“He had neither clothes nor any identifying marks,” Simmons said.
A leg, foot, arm and what may be a human rib cage were all found inside a 12-foot tiger shark in the Bahamas. Two fishermen caught the aggressive shark and were stunned to discover the contents of it's belly.
Imagine the utter shock experienced by two fishermen as they were on the look out for grouper. When the men were reeling in a grouper, the tiger shark caught on. It wasn't until the shark reportedly spat up a human foot that the fisherman sought the massive creature.
'We tied the rope around his tail fin, and pulled him towards the boat. We were going to cut the hook out of his mouth and let him go when he regurgitated a human foot ¿ intact from the knee down,' a fisherman told the Bahamian newspaper, Tribune242.com.
Once on land, the fishermen opened the tiger shark's belly and discovered a an arm, a leg and what may be a rib cage. All the bodily parts were clearly human, but no head was found.
Authorities are not sure whether the shark killed the human or simply ate parts of a drowning victim. They have concluded that the body parts are of a heavy set, black man and may possibly be a missing boater that they have been looking for since last week.