{"id":6361,"date":"2025-02-14T19:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=6361"},"modified":"2025-02-14T19:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:12:31","slug":"horror-as-female-tourists-hands-are-bitten-off-by-shark-yards-from-caribbean-beach-after-she-tried-to-engage-the-6ft-predator-to-take-a-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=6361","title":{"rendered":"Horror as female tourist&#8217;s hands are bitten off by shark yards from Caribbean beach after she &#8216;tried to engage the 6ft predator to take a picture&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She was just a few yards from the shore when the predator struck, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 55-year-old had been wading in the shallows as she &#8216;attempted to engage&#8217; with the animal and take a picture of it, local authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Witnesses said the woman&#8217;s family were nearby at the time and that her husband had bravely tried to stop the shark from biting her again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Meanwhile eerie footage taken by a tourist at a beachside villa show a shark thrashing about in the shallow waters nearby.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap fff-pic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f7da96abdd92dac9\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/14\/18\/95216589-14398219-Shocking_pictures_show_people_who_appear_to_be_the_woman_s_famil-a-4_1739556295814.jpg\" alt=\"Shocking pictures\u00a0show people who appear to be the woman's family helping to stem the blood flow as she lies injured on the beach\" width=\"634\" height=\"634\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/14\/15\/95218529-14398219-Eerie_footage_taken_from_a_beachside_villa_and_shared_by_a_touri-m-60_1739546666908.jpg\" alt=\"Eerie footage taken from a beachside villa and shared by a tourist shows a shark thrashing about in the shallow waters nearby\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/html_modules\/2025\/02_FEB\/250214_Shark_bite_locator_Turks_Caicos\/250214_Shark_bite_locator_Turks_Caicos-large.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I was there for 40 minutes and it was still lingering,&#8217; one witness told a local news site following the bloody attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Police and environmental officials confirmed the attack which occurred in the waters off Thompson&#8217;s Cove Beach in central Providenciales at around 10.30 am on Friday, February 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They advised the public to remain out of the ocean until the all-clear was issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Royal Turks and Caicos Police said that medical personnel and cops were dispatched to the scene near the neighbourhood of Blue Hills, Providenciales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They added that the victim was brought ashore and rushed to the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The woman reportedly had one of her hands amputated at the wrist and the other mid-way down her forearm, and is now said to be receiving medical care back in Canada.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap fff-pic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-bc4082a639c3064b\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/14\/15\/95218771-14398219-image-a-61_1739546852859.jpg\" alt=\"Unconfirmed reports online have suggested it was a bull shark (pictured) which attacked the woman on Friday\" width=\"634\" height=\"409\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Shark bites in the waters off the Turks and Caicos islands are relatively rare, with only one unprovoked attack reported last year which was non-fatal, according to\u00a0Florida Museum of Natural History&#8217;s International Shark Attack File (ISAF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In 2023 an\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12124971\/Yale-graduate-runner-22-FOOT-bitten-shark-snorkeling-Turks-Caicos.html\" target=\"_self\">American woman had her foot bitten off<\/a><\/span>\u00a0by a shark while snorkeling off the archipelago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 22-year-old, from Connecticut, was celebrating her graduation from Yale University with her friend on the island when the horror attack happened, a local source told Dailymail.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Tragically, her foot could not be reattached because an emergency aircraft took six hours to arrive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap fff-pic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-678e3df4a0e5ce5a\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/14\/14\/95216843-14398219-image-a-38_1739543565416.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Turks and Caicos Police said that medical personnel and cops were dispatched to the scene in Blue Hills, Providenciales\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The habitat around the islands is home to multiple types of sharks, including grey reef sharks, nurse sharks, tiger sharks, bull sharks, and hammerhead sharks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The ISAF said in a statement this week that &#8216;2024 was an exceptionally calm year for shark bites. Worldwide, there were only 47 unprovoked attacks, down 22 from the previous year and well below the 10-year average of 70.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Turks and Caicos was a British colonial possession and at various times was governed as part of Jamaica or the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It has had its own government since 1976 and was officially labelled a British Overseas Territory in 2002.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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