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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Prayers for her loved ones. What is a climate change advocate?
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“””What is a climate change advocate?”””
A loony lefty?
No comment either.
Someone who wants to change the climate? Had to be a conservative capitalist/industrialist, like me I suppose....
I saw Jaws when I was 6.
We went to Universal Studios in CA, and the shark popped out in my face.
If something touches my foot in the ocean...day is over.
Homosexual is the proper term.
Somebody who didn’t just drink the Kool-Aid, she chugged a 5 gallon jug of it.
Though I did swim with dolphins in the ocean in Hawaii.
“...and a climate change advocate....”
That sealed her doom. God was not amused.
“Police say there were three sharks involved; they bit her in the arms, legs and buttocks and severed her right arm. “
And they still need an autopsy to figure it out?
Gee, if she had just stayed in Torrance and had a summer job...no sharks there.
We were just in Grand Bahama over the Christmas holiday and we’re out on the water most of the time in my kayak and didn’t see any sharks lotta turtles couple barracudas
poor gal
The article didn’t say but I think it was near NASSau
Poor Sweetheart. What a horrible way to go.
I just did a quick Google search on my phone for
Sharks in the Bahamas.
First thing to come up was:
The Bahamas is ranked among the Top Ten most shark infested beaches IN THE WORLD!
Lemon Sharks, Tiger Sharks, Great Hammerheads, Caribbean Reef Sharks, Oceanic Whitetips and many, many more!
Second search reveals an article: Tour Guide Sacked After Punching Sharks.
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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.
It’s reported they were are on 12 mile ‘uninhabited’ area.
Modern society, where you spend moar money to verify the obvious...
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