he U.S. Coast Guard rescued a 51-year-old man on Feb. 21 after he was reportedly bitten by a shark while fishing on a boat near Bimini Island in the Bahamas. After airlifting the injured man from the boat, the USCG helicopter transported him to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where he was in a stable condition Monday evening.

A member of the Shear Water’s crew initially contacted Coast Guard Sector Miami around 12:50 p.m. on Monday, according to a USCG news release. The crew member told the watchstander in Miami that a man on board had been bitten on the arm by a shark while fishing, and that a tourniquet had already been applied to prevent further blood loss. The watchstander then spoke over the phone with a flight surgeon from District Seven headquarters, who recommended a medical evacuation. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew and an HC-144 airplane crew were sent from Air Station Miami to the scene.

Video footage of the rescue shows that, after locating the Shear Water, a rescue swimmer dropped down to the deck of the boat and attached a line to the vessel. The helicopter crew then rigged up a rescue basket, extracted the injured man, and headed straight for Jackson Memorial Hospital, where emergency medical technicians were standing by.

How the man was bitten by a shark while fishing aboard the large boat remains a mystery. It is also unclear what kind of shark was involved in the incident. Shark attacks are rare in the Bahamas. According to the Global Shark Attack File, there has been an average of three to four attacks per year over the last decade. Only one of these proved fatal, and that unprovoked attack on a 21-year-old snorkeler occurred in 2019. Before that, the last time a shark killed a person in the Bahamas was in 2008, when a 50-year-old Austrian diver named Markus Groh was bitten in the leg by a bull shark.

According to a news report of the 2008 incident, Groh was part of a group of divers staying on a live-aboard boat named the Shear Water. The 65-foot vessel is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, and is operated by Jim Abernethy’s Scuba Adventures, which is a full-service scuba dive charter that specializes in baited shark dives without cages. Groh and the group were reportedly diving in a coral reef area known as “The End of the Map,” located off one of the Northern Islands, when he was fatally attacked on Feb. 24.

Abernethy, the owner and operator of Jim Abernethy’s Scuba Adventures, did not respond to requests for comment, so it remains unclear whether the vessel named in the Feb. 21 USCG report is the same Shear Water that was involved in the 2008 incident.

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Sean Connett, the command duty officer at Coast Guard District Seven, was quoted in Monday’s report, and he credited the boat crew’s emergency response for helping save the man’s life. By fashioning a basic splint and applying a tourniquet on the man’s arm above the location of the bite, they were able to give the victim more time and expedite the rescue process.

“This was the best possible outcome to a truly terrifying situation,” Connett said. “This individual was fortunate a fellow crew member was able to render aid prior to the Coast Guard’s arrival, which allowed for a quick extraction from the vessel.”

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A man has died after being attacked by a shark off the island of San Andres in the Caribbean.

Antonio Roseto Degli Abruzzi, 56, lost a large chunk of his right thigh after being bitten by an eight-foot tiger shark while swimming in a popular snorkelling area called La Piscinita.

Images shared on social media and by local news outlets showed the victim soon after the attack, lying injured before he was taken to hospital. He later died as a result of his injuries.

The extremely rare attack happened on Friday, March 18 and is believed to be the first of its kind on the Colombian island.

A local government spokesman said: “There are diving programmes with professionals in which sharks pass nearby, but nothing has ever happened.”

Diving instructor Mirla Zambrano, 50, added: “We are all very surprised. It’s the first time a shark has attacked a tourist in San Andres.”

In terms of the number of fatal shark attacks recorded, tiger shark attacks are second only to the great white shark. But attacks by Tiger sharks on humans are still extremely rare.

Marine biologist Rodrigo Lopez said: “People are very worried about what’s happened and they’re not letting people go into the water.”

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“The sharks did not give him a chance to swim, he tried to scare them away with his handbut every time he did this they bit him,” a witness told the local channel TeleIslasalthough without clarifying the number of animals that were in the water or providing further details about the circumstances in which the attack occurred.

Already seriously injuredthe 56-year-old man, identified as Anthony, was helped by several people to get out of the sea. Next, they transferred him to the Departmental Hospital of San Andrés, where he arrived unconscious; the doctors were unable to revive him. “Apparently he had a loss of blood volume in the area where he had the accident”said to Radius SnailErika PalaciosScientific Deputy Manager of the health center.

The tragic incident instilled terror in tourists who enjoyed the beaches of San Andrés. To this was added the dissemination on social networks of images and videos that gave an account of the presence of at least two sharks in Caribbean waters.

Facing this scenario, the authorities indicated that this type of attack is infrequent in the area. However, those who live in the place assure that it is not the first time that it happens an event of these characteristics and urged the Government to carry out actions to prevent it from happening again.

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‘My wife didn’t believe me’: Tradie bitten by shark seconds after getting in the surf

Tim McAndrew had just paddled out at Crowdy Bay on Tuesday and tightened his ankle strap when he felt something hit his right side.

“I thought it was one of my mates playing silly buggers… trying to scare me,” he told Nine.com.au.

“I was in the water for a minute… I turned around to my right and said what the f— was that, saw a bit of red in the water and realised I’d been bitten.”

The 32-year-old yelled out to his two colleagues who had been working with him in nearby Harrington to stay out of the water.

He managed to paddle to shore while a colleague grabbed a first aid kit from one of the utes and patched him up “as best they could”.

On the way to hospital, Mr McAndrew said he rang to tell them he was coming, and they told him he was the second shark attack victim that hour.

“Then I let my wife know she didn’t believe me.

“No one really believed me,” he said.

Once he got to emergency, the tradie ended up chatting to another man who had also been bitten at Crowdy Bay.

The shark left bite marks and puncture wounds on his ankle and lower leg.

Mr McAndrew is from the NSW Hunter region but had been in Harrington on a job, and said he hopes to be back on the tools next week.

“It’s more the swelling of my ankle, the impact… yesterday I looked like I had severe gout, but it’s gone down a bit,” he said.

It is unclear what breed the shark was and he didn’t get a good look at the creature.

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The incident marks the first shark bite of 2022 in the county

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – A fisherman was bitten by a shark Wednesday in Volusia County, officials said.

The incident happened around 3:30 p.m., north of New Smyrna Beach.

Volusia County Beach Safety said the 21-year-old New Jersey man was fishing in waist-deep water when he was bitten by a black-tip shark.

The man was not seriously injured, according to beach officials.

It’s the first confirmed shark bite of the year in Volusia County.

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