A terrible episode occurred last Monday afternoon off the coast of the Canary Islands, Spain: a thirty-year-old tourist of German origins died from injuries sustained following an attack by a shark.
The young woman had dived from the boat she was travelling on when, suddenly, she was attacked by a shark that bit her, tearing off her leg. Despite the emergency transport to the hospital and the doctors’ attempts to save her life, the tourist Unfortunately, there was nothing that could be done. The injuries sustained were too serious and extensive.
The reconstruction of the terrible attack suffered by the shark
According to the initial reconstructions carried out by the Spanish authorities, the young tourist was on holiday on a sailing boat British flag in the Atlantic, approximately 278 nautical miles southwest of the island of Grand Canary. And it is right here that the fatal attack is said to have occurred.
The alarm was raised around 3:00 p.m. last Monday. The Spanish emergency services immediately sent a plane and a helicopter from the Air Force to the scene. However, they had first requested the Moroccan Coast Guard to intervene by sea. An intervention that was unsuccessful as lacking the appropriate means to proceed with the rescue operation.
The woman was then loaded onto the helicopter only two hours after the request for intervention and urgently transported to a hospital in Las Palmasthe capital of Gran Canaria. Unfortunately, despite the medical staff’s attempts to save her life, the woman passed away in the evening. Her injuries were too serious and were later joined by cardiac arrest.
The identity of the victim has not yet been released.
According to Spanish media, shark attacks are considered extremely rare in the area where the German tourist was located, approximately 500 km off the coast of the Spanish islands.
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