Shark Attack off Canary Islands: German Tourist Critically Injured at Sea

This will be her last sailing at sea. On Monday, while sailing on board the British catamaran "Dalliance Chichester", a 17-meter pleasure boat that left the port of Las Palmas on Saturday, September 14 according to the specialized website vesselfinder.com, a German tourist was attacked by a shark 500 kilometers off the Spanish Canary Islands archipelago and 278 miles southwest of the island of Gran Canaria. The animal bit her leg.

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A medical evacuation was necessary after this shark attack. Alerted at 2:55 p.m. (local time), the Spanish rescue services called the Moroccan rescue services, before deciding to send a helicopter and a Spanish army plane to help the crew of the catamaran.

The 30-year-old woman did not survive this attack. According to the rescue services, she was on board the helicopter around 8 p.m. (local time). While she was being evacuated to the Las Palmas hospital, the capital of Gran Canaria, the victim died of cardiac arrest.