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12/05/2010 Renate Seiffert ( Egypt ) *** Fatal ***

Recent listing of shark attacks 2010 and Shark Attack Related Incidents in 2010.
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BREAKING: Tourist Killed By Shark In Egypt

Sunday December 05, 2010

Damien Pearse, Sky News Online

A German female tourist has been killed by a shark while swimming off Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

The woman is the fourth person to be attacked on the same stretch of coast in a week.

Witnesses described how she screamed for help after being mauled by the animal close to a reef.

In one of the previous cases a swimmer had an arm bitten off while another lost a foot.

Earlier this week, after the first three attacks, two sharks were caught - an oceanic whitetip and a mako - and the beaches were reopened by officials.

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Sharm el-Sheikh: At least three tourists have been attacked by sharks


However, experts had warned that there was at least one shark still at large.

All watersports activities have now been closed at the resort - though diving sites remain open.

Jochen Van Lysebettens, manager of the Red Sea Diving College, said the dead woman was a regular visitor to the luxury Hyatt Regeny hotel at the resort.

He told Sky News: "The woman was just swimming to stay in shape. Suddenly there was a scream of help and a lot of violence in the water.

"The lifeguard got her on the reef and he noticed she was severely wounded."

Mr Van Lysebettens said 40 diving instructors had been out in the waters in recent days to check for sharks after the initial catch.

"They found nothing," he said. "Based on that the authorities opened the dive sites again and opened the water sports activities again."

The diving expert said that he believed the killer shark - thought to be another whitetip - had also carried out the previous attacks.

He suggested that the shark may have been drawn to the coast by dead sheep which had been left in the water.

"I have no idea why this shark is behaving so aggresively," he continued.

"This must have been triggered by something in the past. Unfortunately in this case he is now looking at snorkellers."

Marine biologist Dr Elke Bojanowski said that sharks mistook swimmers and snorkellers for dead or injured animals floating on the surface.

"This is safe and easy prey for sharks," she said.

One holidaymaker who has just returned from Sharm el-Sheikh said she was appalled that tourists were not given information about shark attacks.

"We saw a diver being brought out of the water after being attacked by a shark," said Agnieszka Gogolewsk, who lives near Kettering.

"I think he was Russian and was involved in the second of the three attacks we have heard about.

"Only an hour after the attack we saw people were still swimming. It is terrible that no one was warning tourists.

"The hotels were saying nothing and people were diving and swimming about unaware of the danger."

Mohammed Salem, director of South Sinai Conservation, said the German victim died a day after Sharm el-Sheikh reopened its beaches.

The resort's mayor, Gamal al-Mahdi, said the beaches had initially been reopened after authorities determined there was no further threat off the coast.

Up to four million tourists - including many Britons - visit the Red Sea coast every year.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201009115848171
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12/05/2010 Renate Seiffert ( Egypt ) *** Fatal ***

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5 December 2010 Last updated at 13:18 GMT

Shark attack kills German tourist at resort in Egypt

A German woman has been killed in a shark attack while snorkelling off the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, officials say.

The death comes after four people were injured in similar attacks at the resort earlier in the week.

Egyptian authorities had re-opened the waters after saying they captured the sharks involved in the earlier attacks.

But some experts said the shark responsible was still loose in one of the world's most popular diving areas.

Egyptian officials said the German woman had died immediately after the attack. There were reports that either one arm or both legs had been torn off.

Egypt's environment ministry had displayed a photo of one the two captured sharks, an Oceanic White Tip.

But divers and conservationists said it was not the same species thought to have carried out the previous attacks, on three Russians and a Ukrainian.

Once again the waters off Sharm el-Sheikh have been closed to watersports.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11922032
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