OMG! Can't imagine being a witness to something like that. Just horrible!

I'm sure it was a Tiger shark. So awful and sad.

Sh

Incredibly sad

Is this unsual, I cant remember a time when there were so many shark attacks near shore. If she was indeed just married, cant even begin to understand that. The happiest week of your life and the earth is just shaken underneath you

I dont get our reporters' trend to not list facts. She was swimming near Sandals it's a fact. The intl news will certainly report it, they wont say "an island said to be located in the caribbean allegedly on beach"

As one has been swimming in the colony's shark infested sea waters from my early childhood. ---- Don't remember ever seeing a warning sign. --- **"SHARKS" Also Swim These Sea Waters -- **And are therefore considered to be dangerous).** --- Yes?

The time has come to cull sharks ....... Have a month of shark hunting like the alligator & python hunts in Louisiana & Florida.

Hmmm... I get it but it sounds like Salem witch trial on sharks. its possible this could be the work of a single shark thats found a new food source. Maybe its injured.

A better approach might be people education. There's a man that I always see cleaning fish at the Prince Charles/East Bay ramp, that needs to stop. I saw a large stingray swimming right on shore in the area, maybe 1-2ft from the seawall, again I dont know if thats usual or not. But you cant clean fish where people swim, its literally baiting the water. Which leaves an open question for Montagu, Potters Cay and Arawak Cay practices. We need to start doing things with sense.

@Sheeprunner12, let's go sea water deeper. --- What of tourists swimming with sharks --- Yes?

Again!! What, is this like the 5th attack in the Bahamas.

Move Along nothing to see.

@sheeprunner12... what you are suggesting is absolutely insane, uneducated, and to some degree -- already happening. As humans, we slaughter millions and millions of sharks worldwide every single year, which is a appalling. The last time I checked, the sharks live in the ocean. It is their home -- not ours.

So, who takes responsibility for multiple tourists lately dying in this fashion? Why aren't huge signs and warnings posted on the beaches near these hotels? Or even advisories given to guests upon arrival to the property? We can just continue to say 'too bad' when these tragedies occur. We need to safeguard our number one industry better than this, Bahamians!!!

Correction......**cannot** continue to say.....

Ohhhhh please! Posting a sign won't help or prevent something like this from happening. Also, if a tourist "needs" a sign to let them know there might be sharks in the water... then they are freaking idiots. Anyone with at least a 5th grade education or higher should already know that sharks live in the ocean and are a perfectly normal part of the ocean. If there are folks out there that don't already know this fact -- well then that is Darwinism working at its finest. Time to thin the heard!!

I blame the life gaurd on duty, from they say them going out that far, should have asked them to stay in the safe zone that most all hotels have outline in the water.

Thats right stupid, persecute the lifeguard!
Once you go beyond the established swim lines you are no longer the lifeguard's responsibility, further, he/she has no authority to prevent any adult from venturing further offshore, that's their choice.
The Bahamas isn't the only country in the world that there are shark attacks. There were 259 recorded shark attacks off the Florida coast between 2012 & 2021, New Smyrna Beach being the worst area, don't forget Australia and south Africa either.

@Comrades, I goin' get real. --- Shark behavior are 'no respecters' of ---'The Established Swim Lines.'--- Yes?

Doesn't help that we have companies feeding sharks , either. Need to stop dive companies from feeding sharks. Are you encouraged to feed bears in the united states? I think you are discouraged from feeding them because they equate humans with food.

If you have verifiable scientific proof that the shark-feeding companies activities are the cause of this womans death you should provide it. Otherwise you are just wasting space promoting your opinion which is not proof of anything.

Boats go to exuma to feed the pigs. As soon as the boat pulls up , guess what happens ? The pigs show up for food provided by humans. In the united states hey advise against feeding bears because it associates food with humans. You may not have enough common sense to grasp the idea that if you feed sharks , they will associate humans with food. If you thi k that marine biologists around the world understand shark behavior, you are out to lunch. And guess what, I happen to be one.

You’re a marine biologist? Bull!! Your juvenile and simplistic attempt to use the Exuma pigs or the advice not to feed bears as some sort of proof to back up your idea just proves that not only are you not a marine biologist but you even lack the ability to critically think or connect the dots. Go back to school child.

I think we found who feeding these sharks...

I believe baiting does have a correlation. When people go into a controlled environment for a shark dive they are told to keep very still, no sudden movements, their behaviour makes the dive safe... well somewhat. A "regular" swimmer having a surprise encounter with a shark who associates (or not) people with food will act erratically. I think if a grouper touched me in the water I'd freak out.That frantic movement would trigger the shark to react. That's as much as I learn from teewee.

My 2 cents worth; I spent a couple of decades scuba diving around the Bahamas, thank you Frannie Ballard. We used to anchor in 70ft just off The Wall about a mile out, after dark on a moonlit night, and drop over the side, swim down following the anchor line, and spend 30 minutes or so admiring all the corals that flower at night. Now? I too scared to go swimming offa Cabbage. Age? Maybe, I don't know.

Probably age related.

Second bride gone this way recently right? Take them off the protected list, at least when shallow enough.

Competition always has a darker side. As the human population increases the demands on local marine resources, i.e.: shortage of fish to eat, add to that poor management of human behaviors, multiple feeding-experience like cleaning statiions, feeding-dive excursions where an easy snack becomes routine = competition. Ask hungry humans to behave civil at a free-food give away... good luck. Even the gentil swimming-with-pigs experience can get aggressive due to competition (corporate & nature). Like all animals, us including, competition for sex & food becomes foremost.
If you are to cull shark population, you must do same for the human population; they were here first!

True indeed.