Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... All kidding aside, I don't think this is what most people have in mind when they hear "shark attack".

Video has surfaced of a man who got bit in the stomach by a nurse shark while he was lobstering in the Gulf of Mexico. While the shark isn't very big, the size of the fight in it was huge.

"I turned to go back up for air and something hit me in the stomach," Ervin McCarty said. "I didn’t know if somebody kicked me or what, but whatever hit me was biting on to me."

Ervin fought with the fish for nearly 20 minutes before he was able to get in the boat. The shark still wouldn't let go. They eventually had to stab the shark and it still took six minutes for it to release its jaws.

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