Death in Cocos from shark attack

[BDSC]

Update with a little more info.

Shark kills US tourist off remote Costa Rican island

 

[drrich2]

You still haven't experienced an aggressive shark yet based on how all your interpretations describe passive shark behaviors, you're under the notion that all shark attacks are based on just a confused shark with a bad case of mistaken identity.

Just my opinion, but if both divers were bitten this tiger was not 'investigating', the story will probably play out that it will be described as aggressive, one person 'tasted' is one thing, two people bitten and one dead is definitely something else altogether.

I agree with some of your points. One thing, I don't assume all sharks involve mistaken identify where the great white mistook the diver for a seal, or the bull shark struck in very turbid water, etc... Sadly, I believe it's possible to get hit in conditions where the viz. is okay, etc...but it's less likely.

I hope we learn whether this was a night dive, or whether there were other, for lack of a better term, 'extenuating circumstances.' But I am open to the possibility the shark just plain attacked. It can happen.

Richard.

 

[Satrekker]

Wow. So sad. Condolences to the diver's family and friends. I was just there the last week of August on the Okeanos Aggressor, and the diving was phenomenal. I saw several tiger sharks over the week. The biggest beauty was a 16' pregnant female that swam by me within 20' while I was camping out on the rocks around 110' on Dirty Rock. I literally saw thousands of sharks over the course of 24 dives and never once felt uncomfortable or threatened. I did notice a lack of sea turtles. I think I only saw 2, and I do remember our dm telling us that there weren't that many sea turtles around since the tigers returned a few years ago. Since tigers are known to feed on sea turtles, it does make me wonder about a diminishing food source possibly. <?>

 

[BDSC]

I think it was a day dive and from the link I just posted, it was while they were surfacing or perhaps on the surface which makes sense as it’s my understanding that sharks typically attack from below the prey.

 

[Satrekker]

I think it was a day dive and from the link I just posted, it was while they were surfacing or perhaps on the surface which makes sense as it’s my understanding that sharks typically attack from below the prey.

That was my thought also.

 

[scubafanatic]

The liveaboard should have stayed and dove at the same spot just to show the tragedy was not repeatable but random in its own course.

This is so wrong on so many levels! Trolling on a tragedy thread...disgusting!

 

[DavBuc]

This is so wrong on so many levels! Trolling on a tragedy thread...disgusting!

That's not trolling it's misplaced humor.

My girlfriend laughs at funerals. She acknowledges that it's a weird response to grief.

Everybody's different when it comes to crises.

 

[SaltyPhotos]

Some more details:
Female Tiger Shark Attacked American Tourist Who Died in Isla del Coco

 

[outofofficebrb]

That's not trolling it's misplaced humor.

My girlfriend laughs at funerals. She acknowledges that it's a weird response to grief.

Everybody's different when it comes to crises.

I have quite a wicked sense of humor. If it’s humor, I can’t even see the humor in it. It comes across as a serious post.

 

[scubafanatic]

I have quite a wicked sense of humor. If it’s humor, I can’t even see the humor in it. It comes across as a serious post.

...hey, have ya heard the one about the rabbi and the crematorium ? Since we're keepin' things here so light hearted an' all.