A young German tourist died yesterday evening on board a Spanish Air Force helicopter that was heading to the hospital in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, after being attacked by a shark in the Atlantic Ocean, 514 kilometers off the coast of the Canary Islands and 180 kilometers from the nearest city in Africa.

The thirty year old man was doing it. A sea voyage on the British-flagged catamaran, the 'Dalliance Chichester'. The shark tore off her leg and that of her fellow sailors, the Spanish Maritime Rescue, which shares international rescue responsibilities in the area with the Moroccan Navy.

Marine rescue All nearby ships were immediately alerted, and one of them approached and provided medical aid to the crew. But to save the injured woman, whose leg was amputated by the shark, a Gran Canaria Air Force helicopter arrived too late.

the boat he was travelling on It departed on September 14 from the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria heading south, according to the route recorded by navigators monitoring maritime traffic. According to the Florida Museum of Natural History's International Shark Incident Report, only six shark attacks have been confirmed in history in the Canary Islands, but none have been fatal so far.

(Update with Aji)