Man bitten by shark off northern tip of the Big Island

He uploaded the graphic video to Instagram, where it quickly gained plenty of attention. The footage pans down the man’s body to a gaping gash in the middle of his left leg.

Braxton Rocha was bitten on his left leg by a 13-foot-long tiger shark on Sunday afternoon before swimming back to shore off the northern tip of the Big Island and calling for help.

He then tells one of the men loading him up on a stretcher that he loves them.

“Love you too!” Mr Braxton replied.

Emergency crews flew him by helicopter to the North Hawaii Community Hospital where he was taken into surgery. His condition is not immediately known.

The beach where the attack happened was not closed because it is in an isolated and remote area.

A 27-year-old diver has shared his brutal shark attack wounds on social media, just moments after the terrifying encounter occurred. Margaret Cruse was snorkeling when she was fatally bitten by a shark at Ahihi Bay on April 29.

‘WOO, I just got attacked by a tiger shark!’ says Rocha in the video. However, great whites are very rare in Hawaiian waters and bull sharks do not visit the state at all.