An American tourist was attacked and killed while she was snorkeling with her family in the Bahamas on Tuesday.
Caroline DiPlacido, 58, who lived near Erie, Pennsylvania, was on a seven-night cruise on the Harmony of the Seas with her husband and three children. The liner left Port Canaveral on Friday. When it docked in Nassau, the family took an excursion with a local tour company for a snorkeling trip.
The family was snorkeling near Rose Island when police said a bull shark attacked DiPlacido. Her husband and children rushed to her aid, along with employees of the tour boat company. Bahamas police said she had “serious injuries to the left side of her body.”
The tour operators carried her to a dock and paramedics took her to a local hospital, but authorities said she had no signs of life.
DiPlacido worked at Gannon University in Erie; she had graduated from there in 1968.
Rose Island is billed an idyllic private getaway off the coast of Nassau with an 11-mile beach and a coral reef, ideal for snorkeling. The beach was closed after the tragedy.
The last reported fatal shark attack in the Bahamas was in 2019, when a Southern California woman was killed by three sharks about half a mile from DiPlacido’s attack. Read more:
