An accident in which a tourist from Italy died occurred on Friday on the island of San Andrés, after the man suffered a beastly bite by a shark on his right thigh, when he reportedly ignored the warning not to swim in an area of the island where the presence of these aquatic carnivores had been detected .
According to the newspaper El Universal in Cartagena, the deceased was identified as Antonio Roseto Degli Abruzzi, 56, who suffered the attack when he immersed himself in the sector known as 'La Piscinita'. After the incident, the foreigner was transferred to Clarence Lynd Newball Hospital, where he arrived without vital signs.
According to what they learned about the case in the Barranquilla newspaper El Heraldo, the Italian received a deep bite of the animal, which caused a great loss of blood that would have led to his death.
Meanwhile, in the television news Red Más they consulted with the Corporation for the Sustainable Development of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (Coralina) where they were told that the tourist was warned not to swim in that area, since the presence of sharks had been detected, which arrived from temporarily to the waters of the island by a wave of migration.
After the accident, images of the area of the place where tiger sharks were caught were posted on social networks, similar to those that attacked the Italian tourist who died in the archipelago.
In that news, they also interviewed specialists from the Squalus Foundation, who have been studying the behavior of these animals for 30 years, who pointed out that the instinct of these fish leads them to explore with their mouths and that attacks occur when humans break into their habitat.
Finally, in Red Más they also remembered that two weeks ago a shark entered a private aquatic sector of a hotel and ate a trained manta ray that lived there, so bathers who were in that area were required to evacuate.
Sandra Bessudo, director of the Malpelo Foundation, indicated in that media that sharks are attracted to the potting of humans, and they are mistaken for their prey, which would be scarce in the waters of the archipelago due to overfishing.
Finally, they reported in Red Más that these attacks are not common in Colombia, and that the last one reported against a person was on February 22, 2016 in Serranía, a key on the island of Providencia, where a doctor who was diving with his family was bitten in the hand.
While in May 2020, images of a female gray shark who was killed by fishermen in the area were released on social networks, and then extracted the young from her belly.
After the images were known, Coralina issued a communication in which they rejected these facts, which indicated that it was the illegal practice of fluttering: “The environmental corporation repudiates this fact in the archipelago, since this marine fauna is protected by Resolution 1633 of 2007 of the Ministry of Environment, which prohibits the flapping of shark, and by resolution 3333 of 2008 of the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA), which prohibits the exercise of industrial or artisanal fishing aimed at the capture of sharks in San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina”.
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