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Updates for string of Shark attacks in Egypt, experts arrive in Sharm to study shark behavior!!
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The last days have been nuts - following 3 attacks on tourists last week in Sharm El-Sheikh, closure of beaches and all water activities were the result - after exploratory dives last Friday, beaches and diving activities were permitted once again Saturday.
This was short lived. Today, another incident at a dive site called Middle Garden, where a german 71 year old woman died. It was said shark attack, grueling reports online, however, eye witnesses said she simply had a heart attack from seeing a very large shark or was being alarmed that there's a shark in the water. She was swimming!!
Anyhow, there's so much information tied in with last weeks attacks til today - if you want more info, ask me and I will give it. I just decided to post, because I saw the CNN report and want to avoid more false news being spread. Here is the link to CDWS (Chamber of Diving and Watersports)...as well as a clipping from their press release.
[link to www.cdws.travel]
PRESS RELEASE
CDWS statement update Sunday 5 December 22:00
- Diving and all watersports activities suspended in Sharm el Sheikh
- CDWS call in world renowned Shark Experts
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The suspension comes following a 4th incident in less than one week involving a shark attack on a tourist. Today's event took place off the beach in front of the Hyatt hotel, Naama Bay. Unfortunately, the 71 year old German woman did not survive.
Last week, three similar attacks took place involving one Ukranian and two Russian snorkellers. These incidents led to severe injuries, but no loss of life.
CDWS is the regulatory body for diving and watersports in Egypt and would like to emphasise that such attacks are extremely rare and this kind of shark behaviour is causing disbelief amongst the Red Sea diving community.
CDWS has over recent days called upon a number of experts from around the world including Dr Marie Levine (Head of the Shark Research Institute in Princeton), Dr Erich Ritter (a specialist in behavioural ecology), Dr Ralph Collier (Shark Research Committee and author of Shark Attacks of the Twentieth Century) and Dr. George H. Burgess (director of the Florida Program for Shark Research) in order to build a team of professionals in the field of shark behaviour.
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Together they will establish the best way to deal with this highly unusual situation and attempt to find the root of its cause.
CDWS chairman Hesham Gabr has called on the organisation's members to conduct further exploratory dives tomorrow along the Sharm el Sheikh coast in order to report back to the shark experts. He would also like to express his sympathies to the family of today's victim.
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