A 10-year-old boy from Maryland is lucky to be alive after being attacked in a shark tank at a resort in the Bahamas.
Officials said the attack occurred around 4 p.m. ET on Paradise Island while the boy was “participating in a Shark Tank expedition at a local resort.” Statement from the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
Preliminary reports said the young explorer was bitten on the right leg during a dangerous activity, authorities said.
He was taken to the hospital, where his condition is said to be stable.
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Great white shark cage diving on Guadalupe Island, Mexico. (Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
Police said they are investigating the circumstances of the incident. The name of the 10-year-old victim has not been released.
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The shark attack 10 years ago occurred just one month after a Massachusetts woman was killed while vacationing in the Bahamas.
Police told reporters that Lauren Erickson Van Wart, 44, was paddleboarding with a male relative less than a mile from the western tip of New Providence Island when she was bitten by a shark. Ta.
The Royal Bahamas Police Department announced that the victim who was bitten by a shark in the Bahamas on December 4, 2023 is Lauren Erickson Van Wart, 44, of Lowell, Massachusetts. (Lauren Van Wert/Linkedin)
Lifeguards on duty observed the situation and dispatched a rescue boat to retrieve the two people.
American tourist killed by shark while paddleboarding in Bahamas: police
CPR was performed on Van Wart, but police said she sustained severe injuries to the right side of her body, including her upper buttocks and right upper leg.
A tourist approaches a great white shark as it swims past its cage in Gansbaai, South Africa, on October 18, 2009. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Between 30 and 40 years old types of sharks Although they live around the Bahamas, the Caribbean's white sharks, bull sharks, tiger sharks and black tip sharks are the ones most frequently bitten, said program director Gavin Naylor. international shark attack file He spoke to The Associated Press in Florida.
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“Usually it's an accidental bite. They think it's something else,” he said. “Sometimes they actually single out people, and it's very intentional.”
FOX News' Pilar Arias contributed to this report.
