[Animals] U.S. tourist killed in Bahamas shark attack

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U.S. tourist killed in Bahamas shark attack
The 58-year-old Pennsylvania woman, identified by her employer as Caroline DiPlacido, was snorkeling with her family when a bull shark attacked, officials said.

 

 

Sept. 6, 2022, 11:32 PM WAT / Updated Sept. 7, 2022, 9:24 PM WAT
By Anthony Cusumano and Dennis Romero
An American tourist was killed in a shark attack Tuesday in the Bahamas.

The woman was snorkeling with a group of five to seven relatives when a bull shark attacked her shortly after 2 p.m. at Green Cay, Royal Bahamas Police Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings said at a news conference. The area is about a half-mile northwest of Rose Island, a private island off Nassau.

While authorities have not released the victim's name, the woman's employer identified her as Caroline DiPlacido. The employer, Gannon University, said she was vacationing with her family in the Bahamas at the time of the attack.

"Caroline was a powerful presence of kindness and friendship to colleagues, students, and the wider community and cherished many family ties to Gannon," the school's chaplain said in a message to the university, where DiPlacido was a project coordinator for the Erie campus' office of community and government relations. "The news is devastating, and she will be missed."

 

 

A boat docked off Rose Island in the Bahamas following deadly shark attack on Sept. 6, 2022. Mike Russell via Facebook
The woman, who officials said was 58, had no vital signs after the attack, Skippings said.

 

 

She arrived in the Bahamas on a cruise ship Tuesday morning, Skippings said. A private tour boat took her group snorkeling off Rose Island.

Family members witnessed the attack. Along with a tour operator, they pulled her from the water and took her by boat to Fort Montagu on Nassau, Skippings said.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-tourist-killed-bahamas-shark-attack-rcna46561