Marine Life Terrible shark attack TCI

[Saboteur]

Shark bites off tourist’s hands as she tries to take selfie on Caribbean beach

It is understood the 55-year-old had one of her arms amputated below the wrist and the other half way up her forearm

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[landphil]

According to the local authorities she “attempted to engage” with the shark

Bull shark selfie FTW

 

[Pearlman]

A shark bit the hands off a woman along the shore of a Caribbean beach while she was trying to take a picture with it... It has been determined that the tourist had attempted to engage with the animal from the shallows in an attempt to take photographs, the authorities said.
It is understood that it had been swimming in the area for around 40 minutes before striking…

Self-inflicted, but now Sharks will get a bad name … Did she think it would behave like a friendly Labrador? Pat it on the head and then baby talk it to pose for the camera…?

 

[Jim Lapenta]

The shark did not attack her. She seemingly lured it in and it did what sharks do.

 

[TostitoBandito]

Ok, apologies for the now-deleted post making a joke, but seriously, this is not a shark attack. She knew the shark was there and deliberately engaged with it anyways. Hopefully someone somewhere learns something from this.

 

[Allen-1]

This appears to be quite similar to the people who get attacked by buffalo as they try to get selfies.

These are NOT domesticated pets - they’re wild animals in their environment in which we’re visiting/intruding.

 

[johndiver999]

The shark did not attack her. She seemingly lured it in and it did what sharks do.

I'm not sure why people have a problem with "attack"? Do you have any alternative words that fit better than attack?

It certainly was not an accident?

Dogs can accidentally injure people with their jaws/teeth and I would not necessarily consider that an attack, simply because, perhaps, blood was drawn during the interaction. But if the dog removed an appendage from a human (and then ate it), I think I might call that a dog attack.

 

[Saboteur]

How about shark assault?

 

[tursiops]

How about shark assault?

It was a shark bite. Anything else is speculative and irrelevant unless you are looking for clickbait or hate sharks.

 

[rmorgan]

My view, this doesn’t have much to do with us. I am awfully sorry for this victim and her family. But—Baiting, habituating, marketing, mainly lack of education, whatever. Sharks and divers coexist with few problems. They are fish, deserving our of admiration and respect—not adversaries or playthings.