2 women killed by sharks i Egypt

mortenscuba · Jul 3, 2022

Pictured: Red Sea shark attack victim - as SECOND woman killed

Egyptian authorities admitted another lifeless body was pulled out of the Red Sea as the Green Party in Austria named Elisabeth Sauer, 68, from Kramsach, as the first victim.

www.dailymail.co.uk

LFMarm · Jul 4, 2022

Two women killed in Egypt Red Sea shark attacks

Two women were killed in shark attacks in Egypt's Red Sea, south of the city of Hurghada, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment said on Sunday.

edition.cnn.com

kelemvor · Jul 4, 2022

Wow, two so close in time and proximity? Seems unusual.

Miyaru · Jul 4, 2022

kelemvor:
Wow, two so close in time and proximity? Seems unusual.

The other victim turned out to be missing from her hotel room for 2 days, so it likely happened 2 days earlier.

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SubMarineBiologist · Jul 4, 2022

When I visited Sharm earlier this year, I was talking to one of the instructors about shark attacks in the area and he brought up the 2010 attacks. Apparently, where animals are getting transported at sea if some die they just get thrown overboard which attracts the sharks. Some tour guides use chum to attract them. His view is that people are attracting sharks to the area by conditioning them to associate us with food. As a marine biologist, I am inclined to agree. I'm due back there in October, and this does worry me.

From Wiki - "A variety of theories were put forward to explain the attacks. This includes overfishing in the Red Sea or on the illegal or inadvertent feeding of sharks or smaller fish close to the shore, which produced scents that attracted more sharks. Another theory considers the dumping of sheep carcasses in the Red Sea by a livestock transport during the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha had attracted the sharks to the shore."

It's so sad for the sharks and for the people.

BoltSnap · Jul 4, 2022

I am reading directives from authorities in Egypt banning all water activities in areas where these incidents took place (in Arabic)

hedonist222 · Jul 4, 2022

Muntaser, you know better than to believe those fairytales

BoltSnap · Jul 4, 2022

hedonist222:
Muntaser, you know better than to believe those fairytales

The directives? They were issued officially for certain.

Gone for diving · Jul 4, 2022

What are they going to do?
Go hunting?

DandyDon · Jul 4, 2022

These are not diving incidents, are they? Many incidents and losses happen at sea, but this is a diving accident forum. These were already posted and moved to other forums...