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German woman dies a week after losing arm to shark in Maui ( Hawaii )
ap ^ | August 22, 2013

Posted on 08/22/2013 7:04:47 PM PDT by george76

A German woman who lost her arm in a shark attack died Wednesday, one week after she was bitten while snorkeling off Maui.

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A woman was killed last month after being attacked while swimming in Brazil during her vacation. Worldwide, there were seven deaths resulting from unprovoked shark attacks in 2012, including one in California

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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: brazil; california; germany; hawaii; maui; shark; sharkattack; sharkattacks; sharks

1 posted on 08/22/2013 7:04:47 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76
Cows kill more people than sharks. ;)

/johnny

2 posted on 08/22/2013 7:06:09 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: george76

Rest in peace.


3 posted on 08/22/2013 7:07:08 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: george76

What is an unprovoked shark attack, am I missing something. :-)


4 posted on 08/22/2013 7:07:59 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

The shark was hungry ?


5 posted on 08/22/2013 7:09:37 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

some beach areas in Hawaii have shark breakwater barriers-
I wonder why


6 posted on 08/22/2013 7:10:58 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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To: george76

Yep...


7 posted on 08/22/2013 7:11:30 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: george76

Yikes. RIP.


8 posted on 08/22/2013 7:31:02 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: george76

It’s awful. Shark attacks are sufficiently rare that the question arises as to why the shark decided this young lady was food? Was it that time of the month for her?


9 posted on 08/22/2013 7:55:18 PM PDT by fso301
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To: george76

Sad news.


10 posted on 08/22/2013 8:17:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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