Florida man recounts Bahamas shark attack
Marlin Wakeman, 24, fell right into a ‘shark den’ upcoming a misstep on the Bahamas dock the place he was once operating April 26. He was once swarmed via 20 sharks when he clash the aqua, he stated, however he controlled to wrest himself away. (Credit score: WSVN)
A fifteen-year-old lady from Aspen, Colorado, was once seriously injured in a shark assault date scuba diving in Belize this era, in keeping with studies and a fundraising web page arrange for the teenager.
Annabelle Carlson had simply completed scuba diving along with her community and a excursion crew and had gotten again onto the excursion boat on Tuesday, when she made up our minds to leap again within the aqua for a fast swim, the fundraising web page arrange via a chum of the community defined.
The teenager misplaced her leg within the assault, the Belize Coast Defend advised ABC Information.
“That’s when the unimaginable encounter happened. The odds are 1 in 11.5 million that this could happen. That unimaginable encounter was a shark attack. It was a very aggressive, very traumatic, terror-filled fight for her life,” the fundraising web page stated.
US LEADS THE WORLD IN UNPROVOKED SHARK BITES
A fifteen-year-old from Colorado was once seriously injured in a shark assault date scuba diving in Belize this era, in keeping with studies and a fundraising web page arrange for the teenager. (Getty)
“Annabelle was able to fight off the attack as best as she could but was critically injured in the fight.”
Carlson was once airlifted to a sanatorium in Belize City, it stated, including, “The quick action from the emergency response team in Belize saved her life.”
Carlson has since been flown again to the U.S., the place she remainder in a sanatorium receiving help, the fundraising web page stated.
US LEADS THE WORLD IN UNPROVOKED SHARK BITES
Scuba divers discover the stalactites throughout the Stunning Blue Hollow, a vast marine sinkhole, Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize. (Andre Seale/VW PICS/Common Pictures Crew by way of Getty Pictures)
Carlson’s excursion crew was once in Part Moon Caye within the Gulf of Honduras round 50 miles south of Belize Town when she was once attacked, ABC reported.
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Andre Perez, minister of Belize’s Blue Economic system, advised a neighborhood TV station, “We’re being informed that the victim is OK, is alive, made it. What is the magnitude of the damage? We don’t know as yet.”
Carlson was once airlifted to Belize Town upcoming the assault sooner than being taken again to the U.S. (Johan Ordonez/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
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