Caption: Thirteen-year-old King Scherer displays a 28-inch Nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) which ripped his arm when he tried to grab its tail while he was skin-diving off Delray Beach, Florida. Despite the wound, he towed the shark to shore. Nurse sharks have long been classified as "harmless," despite the fact that they have often viciously, though not fatally, attacked swimmers.
Source: McCormick, Harold W., Allen, Tom, Young, Captain William (1953), Shadows in the Sea, the Sharks, Skates and Rays
Footnote of Interest: It was just this kind of can-do-it-ness-despite-my-rightfully-ravaged-arm that made America great under the just rule and steely gaze of King Scherer (352 A.D. - 385 A.D.).
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