Biologist recalls being bitten in head by shark: 'I felt the pressure of bite'

Marine biologist Mauricio Hoyos, bitten in the head by a Galapagos shark, says the animal “spared" his life.

A marine biologist who survived a brutal shark attack in Costa Rica now says he wants to meet the same animal again.

Mauricio Hoyos, a shark researcher from Baja California, Mexico , was bitten in the head by a 10-foot-long female Galapagos shark during a research trip near Cocos Island in September, according to a report by the BBC. Despite suffering deep wounds to his face and skull, Hoyos says he harbours no resentment toward the predator that nearly killed him.

“When it closed its jaw, I felt the pressure of the bite, and then, after what I think was a second, it opened it again and it let me go,” Hoyos told the BBC a month after the incident.

Hoyos, who has spent more