  In this work we derive a lower bounds for the Hausdorff and fractal
dimensions of the global attractor of the Sabra shell model of turbulence in
different regimes of parameters. We show that for a particular choice of the
forcing and for sufficiently small viscosity term $\nu$, the Sabra shell model
has a global attractor of large Hausdorff and fractal dimensions proportional
to $\log_\lambda \nu^{-1}$ for all values of the governing parameter
$\epsilon$, except for $\epsilon=1$. The obtained lower bounds are sharp,
matching the upper bounds for the dimension of the global attractor obtained in
our previous work. Moreover, we show different scenarios of the transition to
chaos for different parameters regime and for specific forcing. In the
``three-dimensional'' regime of parameters this scenario changes when the
parameter $\epsilon$ becomes sufficiently close to 0 or to 1. We also show that
in the ``two-dimensional'' regime of parameters for a certain non-zero forcing
term the long-time dynamics of the model becomes trivial for any value of the
viscosity.
