A DIVER discovered a tiny baby shark during a routine dive in the Blue Planet Aquarium’s giant Caribbean Reef display.
The 3.8m litre display is home to Europe’s largest shark collection, including three-metre-long sand tigers.
The tiny 15cm bamboo shark – who’s been nicknamed Rocky – was found by Terry Cookson during a routine cleaning and maintenance dive.
Exhibits manager Andrea Redfern said: “It’s astonishing the egg hatched and Rocky was able to feed on his egg-sac without being spotted by larger predators in the display.”
Rocky is now in the aquarium’s smaller lagoon display, which is used as a nursery for the smaller shark species.
Bamboo sharks usually live around coral reefs and tidepools.
