Loyola Marymount Student From Torrance [CA] Dies In Shark Attack In The Bahamas

cbs2la ^ | 06/27/2019

[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.

[Magnum44]

they bit her in the arms, legs and buttocks and severed her right arm. ... She is expected to undergo an autopsy

Ya think it was a shark?

[Hot Tabasco]

She is expected to undergo an autopsy in Nassau.

My guess is that they'll find she died of shark bites.......

[Oatka]

Not saying it was the case here, and no doubt some will find this advice sexist somehow, but ladies you need to stay out of the ocean when it’s that time of the month. I’m not joking.

I read also that it makes bottle-nose dolphins aggressively amorous. Not joking either.

[1Old Pro]

Friends described her as an animal lover and a climate change advocate.

Of course, aren't the all these days?

[Joe 6-pack]

"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."

I know a lot more about dogs than I do bear, but one can extrapolate.

A human nose contains about 6 million olfactory receptors over about one square inch (i.e. postage stamp) of tissue. A typical dog has about 300 million receptors on about a square foot of area. If scent were sight, a dog could see things as clearly at 3,000 miles as you or I could see things at 1/3rd of a mile.

I don't know a lot about bears but I do know their noses are a lot bigger than a dogs.

[Capt. Tom]

The three top shark species in deaths of us humans are Whites ,tigers and Bull sharks.

The Bull shark is the most aggressive of the three, and would be a leading suspect in this tragedy. - Tom

[TMN78247]

YEP. - Though that area is a “nursery”/haven for juvenile tiger sharks, too.

Yours, TMN78247

[TMN78247]

YEP. - Though that area is a “nursery”/haven for juvenile tiger sharks, too.

Yours, TMN78247

[VMI70]

My immediate, exact reaction! People are really stupid, present company excluded.

[Notthereyet]

“Not saying it was the case here, and no doubt some will find this advice sexist somehow, but ladies you need to stay out of the ocean when it’s that time of the month.”
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I remember being taught that as a teenager: And it was told to me by someone who was clear about it applying in the water AS WELL as on land.

Never, ever, ever, EVER go out in the water when on your menstrual cycle or anywhere a wild animal can pick up your scent.

I did a lot of what I would call stupid things while growing up; never wanted to actually risk my life, however, and dearly headed that bit of instruction.

[Notthereyet]

As I mentioned previously, I was advised it by someone who would know what he was talking about....

I was even a teenager, actually, when I first was warned about the menstrual cycle casing mayhem and death...

I was I guess, on my first Girl Scout camping trip...

There was a male guide who insisted on the troop knowing of this issue and he strongly suggested those who may either start or be currently on their menstrual cycles to STAY HOME and enjoy a trip the next year.

He clearly did not want any unneeded drama.

I think the reason it stuck in my mind was that I wondered about the smell of blood and forest animals....

At that time of my life I was thinking about getting home from the camping trip and didn’t want ANYONE to put me in any position of possibly not making it home.

Years earlier, my dad had to pick me up from a camp because I wasn’t able to ‘relax enough,’ and the adults figured I just wasn’t a ‘forest lover.’ Even at that young age I just didn’t have the ability to just relax in the forest.

LOLOL