Woman, 30, killed in shark attack while 300 miles off coast on a catamaran

PONTEVEDRA, GALICIA, SPAIN - DECEMBER 26: A coast guard helicopter participates in the search efforts in the area where the bus fell into the Lerez river, on 26 December, 2022 in Cerdedo-Cotobade, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. According to the 112 Galicia, the emergency teams, a device integrated by agents of the Civil Guard and members of Civil Protection, have confirmed that all the missing persons have been rescued. Two of the deceased were rescued the same night of the event, four other victims yesterday Sunday and a seventh victim today that has resumed the search after the claim of the relatives of a woman who remained unaccounted for. It is thus confirmed that nine people were on the coach, eight passengers and the driver. The accident took place around 21.20 hours this Saturday, when a bus of the company Monbus, of the regular line between Lugo and Vigo, fell into the river at kilometer 67.5 of the N-541, in the parish of Pedre. (Photo By Gustavo de la Paz/Europa Press via Getty Images)
The woman was taken by helicopter to hospital but she died (Picture: Europa Press via Getty Images)

A 30-year-old woman has died near a popular holiday spot after her leg was bitten off by a shark.

The horrific attack took place while she was on a catamaran in international waters 278 miles south-west of Gran Canaria’s airport.

The woman’s name has not been identified but she is from Germany and died in a Spanish Air Force helicopter as she was being evacuated to a hospital in Gran Canaria.

She boarded at 8pm but died at 11pm yesterday after she went into cardiac arrest inside the helicopter.

The shark attack happened at around 4pm on the same day so it is believed she died around seven hours later.

The catamaran sent a Mayday at 3.55pm.

Spanish coastguards also alerted other nearby vessels about the emergency that was happening.

A catamaran after a woman was killed in a shark attack near the Canary Islands
The woman was on a catamaran when the attack happened(Picture: Solarpix.com)

Another vessel ended up approaching the catamaran to give the rescue crew medicine aimed to help the woman.

Local reports suggest Moroccan authorities refused to transfer the injured woman for treatment to Rabat.

The catamaran left the Canaries on September 14 and has been named as the British-flagged Dalliance Chichester.

It is a 17 metre-long, eight metre-wide pleasure craft.

Coastguards in the UK have been informed about the incident from the Spanish coastguards because of the origin of the catamaran.

It is still not yet clear this evening how the attack happened or why.

A shark attack for this area is unusual because there has been no previous documented shark attacks there.

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