Friday, March 29

Shark Bites Off Tourist’s Leg in Turks, Caicos

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A shark attacked an American woman snorkeling in the Turks and Caicos and bit off her leg last week. She was reported in serious condition in a local hospital.

The woman, 22 years old and from Connecticut, was snorkeling about 3 in the afternoon with a friend at the Bone Yard dive site in Princess Alexandria National Park near Providenciales when the shark attacked, according to the Royal Turks and Caicos Island Police Force. (Her name and home town were not released.)

The police said they received a phone call reporting that a woman “had her leg bitten off by a shark.”  The call was from an employee of a resort near the Leeward Cut Harbor (pictured above) Marina.

Big Blue Collective, a local charter and water sports operator, said that “The calm, quick and measured response from one of our captains and office team meant that the woman was extracted from the ocean and dispatched in the ambulance in 15 minutes, saving her from a potentially life-threatening situation.”

The woman and her friend were snorkeling off a private boat at the time.

The Collective sad that shark attacks there were “extremely rare and unfortunate,” and that they thought a reef shark had attacked her in what divers call “a case of mistaken identity.” Read more at https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/us/turks-and-caicos-shark-attack/index.html and see the video below:

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