Shark rips off Yale graduate's foot as she celebrated off luxury Caribbean island [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

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.

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