On Thursday, Nov. 30, a tiger shark at Cocos Island, Costa Rica bit and killed a diver and injured the divemaster while they were awaiting pickup from their liveaboard’s skiff. The diver was a guest onboard the Undersea Hunter’s Sea Hunter when the unprovoked attack occurred. According to an official report, a female guest named Bhandari was diving with an instructor named Jimenez at famed site Manuelita when a female tiger shark followed them from the safety stop to the surface.
The shark bit her, causing severe lacerations on her legs which led to her death shortly thereafter. The shark also bit the dive instructor on the leg as well, and both he and the skiff driver tried to fight it off at the surface. Jimenez is in serious but stable condition. Conservationists recorded five tiger sharks in the Isla del Coco National Park in 2012, but last week’s fatal attack is the first to ever happen in the area. As most divers know, underwater interactions with sharks are not only nearly always peaceful, but much looked forward to on a dive. We report on this incident not to stoke fears of shark interactions, but rather because it is so incredibly rare, and concerns the dive industry. We send our thoughts to all parties involved.
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