Two fishermen who disappeared while trying to swim to shore, leaving their friends in the boat, were almost certainly both taken by sharks, after body parts found in a 3.6-metre (12 ft) tiger shark appeared to belong to one of the men. Police confirmed that fingerprints matched those of Judson Newton, who swam for shore with his friend Franklin Roosevelt Brown after their boat broke down.
The 43-year-old had been boating with friends off New Providence Island, in the Bahamas, when their vessel stalled. He and one friend decided to swim to land to get help, but neither was seen again.
Six days later during a fishing trip, a banker made the discovery. Humphrey Simmons, a Bahamian investment banker caught a shark and discovered a man’s body inside — after the shark unexpectedly regurgitated a human foot.
