Posted on 02/14/2025 8:27:47 AM PST by Angelino97
A tourist has been savagely attacked by a shark off a Caribbean beach, with reports that the victim lost both her hands as her husband tried to fight the beast off.
The woman, believed to be a Canadian national, had been enjoying a holiday to the Turks and Caicos islands when the bloody attack happened last Friday.
She was just a few yards from the shore when the predator struck, according to local media.
The 55-year-old had been wading in the shallows as she 'attempted to engage' with the animal and take a picture of it, local authorities said.
Witnesses said the woman's family were nearby at the time and that her husband had bravely tried to stop the shark from biting her again.
Harrowing pictures show how a crowd gathered around the injured woman after she made it back to the beach, with cloths being held onto her arms as they apparently tried to stem the bleeding.
The shark was estimated to be around 6ft in length, the local government said, adding that the species is not yet known. Unconfirmed reports online have suggested it was a bull shark.
Meanwhile eerie footage taken by a tourist at a beachside villa show a shark thrashing about in the shallow waters nearby.
'I was there for 40 minutes and it was still lingering,' one witness told a local news site following the bloody attack.
A man claiming to be a relative of the woman said she was able to walk back to shore after being bitten. She was bitten in the thigh, he added, but did not lose her leg.
At the same time her husband desperately tried to fight off the shark, witnesses said, as it continued to circle and tried to bite the woman again.
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Some people do not have situational awareness.
A cute little 6 ft shark.
D’oh
The Bahamas waters are infested with sharks..............
No doubt a Trudeau voter
Let’s give her a hand!
She's lucky that she's not dead. I can't think of anything more stupid than this.
Apparently she never watched Jaws. I’m amazed anyone goes in the ocean after seeing that movie.
Sad outcome for this lady. Some people just have zero common sense. You see the same in Yellowstone.
Sharks do not ‘engage’, they hunt, then they feed.
Maybe she thought she was seeing a Dolphin, it being so small.
It was probably a juvenile shark, out for lunch.
That’s definitely up for a Darwin Award had she perished, and only slightly below those people that walked backward off a cliff and died wanting to get closer to the Sun taking a selfie.
There was a story the other day of a lady on safari who was killed by a hippo. No details were provided as to how she came to be in contact with the giant wild animal.
She wins the 2025 FAFO award
Just like the goober that got too close to a hippo and got killed.
At least now she will have something to talk about with these guys...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLjNzwEULG8
I’m not surprised at all. Tourons are always asking the Park
Rangers where the bears go at night and who feeds and takes care of them. “Aren’t the wild bears tame?”
OK, i’ll bite. Lady fingers!
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