Posted on 06/27/2019 7:30:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Police say the victim was attacked by sharks while snorkeling with her family near the island. Family members apparently saw the sharks and yelled, trying to warn her, but she didn’t hear them in time. Police say there were three sharks involved; they bit her in the arms, legs and buttocks and severed her right arm. Lindsey was taken to hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. She is expected to undergo an autopsy in Nassau.
Lindsey was a communication studies major at Loyola Marymount University. Friends described her as an animal lover and a climate change advocate.
“My heart is pounding, I cannot believe it,” she According to a statement from the university, Lindsey transferred to LMU from Santa Monica College and participated in LMU’s Entrepreneurship Society, the Tau Sigma National Honor Society and was a communications assistant for the LMU Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering. She was also a student researcher with the university’s Center for Urban Resilience.
The statement said the university was saddened by her death and will remember her with a plaque bearing her name at the on-campus student memorial, Ad Astra Per Aspera.
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“What is a climate change advocate?”
If that descriptor is the first thing that comes to her friends mind that means she was whack job.
I was thinking along the same lines. You phrased the advice a bit more delicately than I would have.
This animal lover got to feed a few. What a selfless individual.
LMFAO!
Now, is that any way for a Gator to act?
I don’t believe that is sexist...I recall that may be standard sound advice in diving circles, though I could be wrong.
We have a boat. Docked in a marina on the ocean. Have spent tons of days/time sailing on the ocean. I don’t get in the ocean. lol
I don’t see where that’s sexist at all, just good advice and good common sense.
Peach
She got caught in a “feeding frenzy”. The predators (including sharks) will push a school of bait fish into shallow water and slaughter them. It’s an awesome display of mother nature but deadly when sharks are involved.
I was sitting on a rock in a small cove, with a niece on my lap, when I felt something annoying my baby toe. I pulled my foot out of the water, and it was a green crab, maybe 2" wide at most.
Scuba diving for lobsters, I knelt down on the sea floor, and created a flash of activity. I had landed on a skate, maybe ~18" wide. That used up a more than a couple of extra breaths of air while my heart rate eventually dropped back to normal.
Frikkin’ laser beams...
Gators are fresh water. :)
I don’t know why I’m compelled to read these stories.
Ever since I saw Jaws as a kid, sharks have scared the living hell out of me.
“and a climate change advocate”
i thought we’re supposed to want LESS “climate change” instead of MORE “climate change” ...
I have heard that it’s wise to watch the monthly cycle.
Always sad to hear about that kind of death. Hope she is not in that “global warming” place.
That advice is also for women who hike, especially in known bear areas.
I read some thing about Grizzlies a while back, and it said that they have an unbelievable sense of smell and can smell blood from miles away if wth wind is right.
They also said it was able to pull, with one paw, a dead 700 lb Elk from a deep hole in the ground.
Shudder.
Are you just making an assumption due to the presence of three sharks? I didn’t read anything stating that it was in fact a feeding frenzy. A feeding frenzy is really distinct and even fairly inexperienced divers I’d think would recognize that it would be very problematic to get in the middle of that.
Just in case anyone reading this doesn’t know how to spot one, the first sign is a mass of shorebirds circling and diving over a given area of surf or ocean. Bait fish will be jumping straight out of the water and sometimes are actually driven ashore. It’s not always sharks predating upon them but any predator species with teeth is potentially an issue.
A science denier. Given there hasn't been one single peer reviewed paper to date that makes the claim of man made "climate change" by their definition.
Without any scientific evidence they claim what 97% of all scientists believe in something that was never claimed by science.
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