Marine Life Terrible shark attack TCI
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Dan
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mcohen1021
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I have not seen any article on this whole topic that said that the person was scuba diving.. did I miss something? My understanding was it was a beachgoer
On another note, has anybody seen anything other than a reef shark, a gray shark or a nurse shark at Turks and Caicos? I only have about 40 dives there, but that's all I've seen.
I do love how every single shark bite article, they always post a picture of the great white shark... Bull crap.
ginti
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johndiver999
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yeah bison are just cows.. LOL Ever milk one?
.... and sharks don't attack, they simply deliver bites that remove appendages. To use the work attack is nothing more than click bait, LOL.
Sharks DO attack, have you ever seen them go after a compromised or injured prey? They don't causally approach and casually take a bite - they ATTACK and they do it violently and they slam their heads back and forth to rip the prey apart and tear off as big of a piece of tissue as they can; not so different than when a dog attacks a small animal and tries to break its neck by shaking it violently.
FYI, people that responded said that she was not doing anything abnormal. Was walking in shallow water toward her husband who was closer to shore (this area is very shallow for a ways out). The shark came at her and she lost her hands trying to push it away. I'm not sure why DECR is insinuating that she was at fault, other than the obvious reasons (sharks don't exist in tourist paradise, nothing to see here). For the sake of the lady it'd be good to stop joking about a pretty unfortunate incident. She was not taking a picture and the family was all terrified of sharks, probably more so now.
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Here is a (news) report that came out a little while ago. It looks like it was a Bull Shark that bumped her and when it came back, it appears she put hers arms & camera in front of her to keep some distance, that is when the shark bit her.
(And even though they now know it was a Bull Shark, they still don't have a pic of the right species in the article.)
nationalpost.com
(And even though they now know it was a Bull Shark, they still don't have a pic of the right species in the article.)
'Instantly amputated': New details emerge in Canadian woman's Turks and Caicos shark attack
Quebec woman, 55, "put both hands in front of her to protect herself, the shark cut off both of her hands," her brother-in-law says.
nationalpost.com
ginti
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Here is a (news) report that came out a little while ago. It looks like it was a Bull Shark that bumped her and when it came back, it appears she put hers arms & camera in front of her to keep some distance, that is when the shark bit her.
(And even though they now know it was a Bull Shark, they still don't have a pic of the right species in the article.)
'Instantly amputated': New details emerge in Canadian woman's Turks and Caicos shark attack
Quebec woman, 55, "put both hands in front of her to protect herself, the shark cut off both of her hands," her brother-in-law says.
This report is very different from the first one. She jumped into the water and was bitten: an unprovoked attack.
Not that it changes anything: this is a truly horrible incident, and the victim deserves the deepest sympathy and support, regardless of her actions.
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