Here're the horrific details.
The woman lost both arms and suffered severe wounds to her torso and legs in the savage attack at Amity Point about 5pm.This is the third attack in the last few months. It's hardly the case that there's 'rarely' a shark attack. It's averaging to be about once every 3-4 months.
A rescue helicopter rushed her to Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital but surgeons could not save her.
It is believed the woman was holidaying from Brisbane. Last night, police were trying to contact her family.
Emergency Services Rescue Helicopter crew officer Rod Morgan said the woman had suffered massive blood loss.
"She was very pale" he said.
"We were diverted right away and were able to be on the scene within minutes and were able to have the patient at hospital within an hour of the attack."
Several distraught witnesses were being interviewed by police at Amity Point last night.
A local woman, who didn't want to be identified, said the victim arrived on the island only yesterday.
She said the victim was swimming with her border collie when the attack happened and the dog ran home to raise the alarm.
"I was across the road from where she was staying and I saw the dog come flying up the road all wet and shivering and whimpering," she said.
"Then a little boy came running up and said the girl had lost her leg and her arm and everyone ran out of the house towards the beach."
She said the frenzied dog had to be restrained.
"It was just a little black-and-white dog but he was crazy so I locked him under the house," she said.
I think Vic Hislop has been maligned. :)
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Nevertheless, the sharks are just doing what comes naturally to them, aren't they? So going after the sharks that did it, won't really achieve anything.
Well, yeah.
The more important point rather than 'which shark did it?' is the general malaise of wilfully ignroing the fact that shakrs take people off our coasts.
For years I've thought, it's a *rare* occurence, but lately I'm thinking, it's about 1/1000,000 to 1/100,000 if you go to certain beaches/coastal areas.
i.e. - the risks of shark attack are actually higher than people admit.
Not that it's a REALLY big deal.
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