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Shark rips off Yale graduate's foot as she celebrated off luxury Caribbean island
Medics were unable to reattach the foot because it took six hours for the woman and her limb to be airlifted to a Miami hospital
By
Susie Coen
25 May 2023 • 9:40pm
A Yale graduate had her foot bitten off by a shark while snorkeling off a luxury island during a "celebratory" Turks and Caicos trip.
The marathon-runner, 22, from Connecticut, was visiting the Caribbean archipelago with a friend to mark the milestone when she was attacked on Wednesday, according to reports.
The pair were swimming off Grace Bay Beach, a stretch of white-sand often listed as one of the world's best beaches, during a private boat tour when she was bitten by what is believed to have been a Caribbean reef shark.
The captain of the boat is said to have dived into the water to rescue the woman. He applied a tourniquet to her leg before she was rushed to Cheshire Hall Medical Centre.
More:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/25/shark-attack-turks-caicos-grace-bay-beach-yale-student/
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How awful!
