Glam lawyer mauled by shark in terrifying attack shows off her horror injuries

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Surfer Tayane Dalazen shared pictures of the bloody bite marks on her Instagram after she was attacked by a nurse shark, a a species without a significant history of attacks on humans

13:38, 15 Jan 2026Updated 15:17, 15 Jan 2026

Tayane is a passionate surfer(Image: Instagram)

A glam surfer has shown her stitched-up leg after she was bitten by a supposedly harmless nurse shark while she was freediving in the sea.

Lawyer Tayane Dalazen, 36, was snorkelling with friends in the Fernando de Noronha archipelago in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco when she was mauled by the underwater beast.

Horror footage shared on her Instagram page showed the shark's seemingly lazy approach to Tayane before it suddenly bit down on her right leg .

In the brief clip, Tayane can be seen swimming upside-down and gracefully moving through the underwater paradise, with the cameraman capturing the slow-moving shark seemingly milling around in the background.

[Tayane showed off her horror injuries]

Tayane showed off her horror injuries(Image: Instagram)

The shark continues towards the tourist's direction, looking as if it was going to glide by the swimmer, before snapping its mouth towards her. In a flash, the shark sinks its teeth into her leg as the camera shakes.

Nurse sharks are not designed to take down large seafaring prey like other big fish, marine mammals or turtles. While they can grow up to two-metres long, they are dotted with smaller serrated teeth that allow them to crush their shelled prey, such as crustaceans.

Photographs shared afterwards show the gash to her leg which features a gory outline of the puncture marks from the shark's teeth.

[Tayane was left bandaged up after the attack]

Tayane was left bandaged up after the attack(Image: Instagram)

Speaking after the horror, she said the fish had gripped her for a few moments and started shaking her in its grip when the quick-thinking tour guide stepped in.

She said: "I felt it shaking me by the leg. I thought I could not put my hand there, because it could rip it off. The guide had to hit it so it would let me go."

And showing off her injuries on Brazilian TV, she said first aid was carried out immediately after the attack by her friend Caroline Pereira, a dermatologist who had been diving with her and who continues to monitor the treatment.

[The shark swooped on her leg]

The shark swooped on her leg(Image: Instagram)

Doctors reportedly used only two stitches due to the risk of contamination, allowing the injury to heal from the inside out using a technique known as approximation of the wound edges.

Tayane said the recovery was progressing well and that the wound showed good signs of healing. In posts on her social media, she reassured followers that she was fine and joked about the fish, joking: "The shark must be missing a tooth.

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"Will I have a scar? Yes. But I'll be a surfer with a shark scar. I think it even gives me some prestige."

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