Florida man recounts Bahamas shark strike
Marlin Wakeman, 24, fell into a ‘shark den’ after a ignoretep at the Bahamas dock where he was toiling April 26. He was shoted by 20 sharks when he hit the water, he shelp, but he regulated to wrest himself away. (Credit: WSVN)
A 15-year-elderly girl from Aspen, Colorado, was harshly injured in a shark strike while scuba diving in Belize this week, according to alerts and a fundraising page set up for the teen.
Annabelle Carlson had fair finished scuba diving with her family and a tour group and had gotten back onto the tour boat on Tuesday, when she determined to jump back in the water for a speedy swim, the fundraising page set up by a frifinish of the family elucidateed.
The teen lost her leg in the strike, the Belize Coast Guard telderly ABC News.
“That’s when the unimaginable come apass happened. The odds are 1 in 11.5 million that this could happen. That unimaginable come apass was a shark strike. It was a very presentile, very traumatic, dread-filled fight for her life,” the fundraising page shelp.
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A 15-year-elderly from Colorado was harshly injured in a shark strike while scuba diving in Belize this week, according to alerts and a fundraising page set up for the teen. (Getty)
“Annabelle was able to fight off the strike as best as she could but was criticpartner injured in the fight.”
Carlson was airlifted to a hospital in Belize City, it shelp, inserting, “The speedy action from the materializency response team in Belize saved her life.”
Carlson has since been flown back to the U.S., where she remains in a hospital receiving attfinish, the fundraising page shelp.
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Scuba divers scrutinize the stalactites inside the Great Blue Hole, a huge marine sinkhole, Lighthoengage Reef Atoll, Belize. (Andre Seale/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Carlson’s tour group was in Half Moon Caye in the Gulf of Honduras around 50 miles south of Belize City when she was strikeed, ABC alerted.
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Andre Perez, minister of Belize’s Blue Economy, telderly a local TV station, “We’re being alerted that the victim is OK, is ainhabit, made it. What is the magnitude of the injure? We don’t comprehend as yet.”
Carlson was airlifted to Belize City after the strike before being getn back to the U.S. (Johan Ordonez/AFP via Getty Images)
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