A shark attacked an American woman snorkeling in the Turks and Caicos and bit off her leg last week. She was reported in serious condition in a local hospital. The woman, 22 years old and from Connecticut, was snorkeling about 3 in the afternoon with a friend at the Bone Yard dive site in Princess Alexandria National Park near Providenciales when the shark attacked, according to the Royal Turks and Caicos Island Police Force. The police said they received a phone call reporting that a woman “had her leg bitten off by a shark.” The call was from an employee of a resort near the Leeward Cut Harbor (pictured above) Marina. The Collective sad that shark attacks there were “extremely rare and unfortunate,” and that they thought a reef shark had attacked her in what divers call “a case of mistaken identity.” Read more at https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/us/turks-and-caicos-shark-attack/index.html and see the video below:

Source: CNN May 29, 2023 16:32 UTC