The family has now returned home to Kettering, Northamptonshire, where the injured boy is recovering and using a wheelchair.
The family had been partly through their five-island tour when the attack took place at Compass Cay.
He said the children had decided to join a crowd of people in a lagoon, in which nurse sharks were swimming.He added:"There was so much blood. Bits of his leg were hanging off.Finley was pulled from the water by his older sister Lily, and Mr Downer had to spend £2,000 on flights to Nassau for the emergency operation.In an interview with The Sun, Mr Downer expressed his anger at being told by tour guides the sharks were safe.
Operator Exuma Escapes claimed in a statement to the newspaper that the family went unguided into a lagoon which it does not use on its tour - adding that nurse sharks are docile bottom-feeders unless they are handled incorrectly. Experts say nurse sharks are mostly seen as harmless to humans unless they are abruptly disturbed or stepped on - and many will also swim away when approached.
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