ABACO KEY, Bahamas — A teen diver was flown to West Palm Beach, Florida, for emergency surgery after a bull shark bit him in the leg. Derek Mitchell, 14, was spearfishing with his father and friends north of Abaco Key when the shark attacked him. Dr. Mark Beatty, a surgeon based in Stuart, Florida, heard the call for help over his boat's radio while fishing about ten miles from the scene of the shark attack, and raced to the dock where the boy was being treated. Beatty said the boy was remarkably calm considering the extent of his injuries. The boy's family chartered a plane, which took him to Palm Beach International Airport, where paramedics rushed him to St. Mary's Medical Center for emergency surgery. In 2008 in the Bahamas, a shark attacked and killed Markus Groh, an Austrian tourist who signed up for a Bahamas shark feeding tour with Florida-based Jim Abernethy. Although banned in most parts of the world, shark feeding is legal in the Bahamas despite overwhelming scientific evidence that manipulating sharks to associate humans with food is bad for both sharks and people. | 
