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[Shillzz]

 

OK it was yesterday but still ...

Reunion Island: Shark kills teenage snorkeller just 15 feet from beach

 

Reunion Island: Shark kills teenage snorkeller just 15 feet from beach

A shark today ripped a teenage holidaymaker in half and swam off with the upper part of her body.

The 15-year-old “died instantly” after the predator dragged her underwater in front of her sister.

The girls were fewer than 15ft from the beach on the paradise island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean but were snorkelling in a part of a bay that is banned to swimmers.

Officials on the French island said there had been recent attacks on surfers in the area but that it had been a “long time” since a shark pounced so near the shore.

They added: “The operation to recover the upper part of the body is ongoing.”

The victim was from ­mainland France and had been staying on the island with her father, who runs a yacht club in the St Paul area.

In May a French honeymooner died of injuries he sustained in a shark attack while surfing not far from a beach on Reunion.

What possesses someone to go "snorkelling in a part of a bay that is banned to swimmers" owing to the amount of sharks in that area? There's a certain arrogance required to do that I think. She won't be doing that again.

I've swam with sharks countless times , bull sharks included ( they are responsible for most human attacks if I recall ) .... 99% of the time they are harmless enough

Saying that I probably wouldn't have swam where that girl did against advice

 

 

Ooh where abouts?

 

I'm struggling to fit some decent shark diving into my travelling itinerary next year. I really wanted to go to Port Lincoln, but air fares in Australia make it a big no.

[BOF]

Controversial comic Frankie Boyle in hunger strike to support Shaker Aamer - the last British detainee in Guantánamo Bay

Controversial comic Frankie Boyle in hunger strike to support Shaker Aamer - the last British detainee in Guantánamo Bay

Boyle, who in December donated the £50,000 he won in his libel action against the Daily Mirror to Aamer's legal fund, stopped eating on Wednesday

The Scottish funnyman, who in December donated the £50,000 he won in his libel action against the Daily Mirror to Aamer's legal fund, stopped eating on Wednesday in a bid to highlight the plight of the detainee from London, who is one of dozens of inmates refusing food in protest over their treatment.

Mr Boyle, 41, took the baton from human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith of Reprieve, who represents Aamer.

A prolific user of the micro-blogging site Twitter, Boyle has kept followers updated on the hunger strike.

On Wednesday night, before embarking on his protest, he wrote: "Taking up the hunger strike by proxy for Shaker Aamer tomorrow.

Congratulations to the bold @CliveSSmith after 7 days. I'll see how it goes."

Once the hunger strike was underway he continued to update followers tweeting late last night:

"Day 2 of hunger strike feels a bit like being drunk. Feel pretty good, but no doubt I'll wake up to find myself in bathroom eating soap."

Clive Stafford Smith began his hunger strike over a week ago as part of Reprieve's 'The Stand Fast For Justice campaign', which aims to "promote the rule of law around the world, and secure each person’s right to a fair trial."

Shaker Aamer has been on hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay for over 150 days.

According to the 'Stand For Justice' website, people from around the world have promised around 1200 days hunger striking on the prisoners’ behalf.

Shaker Aamer was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 and has been held at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, without charge, since then.

[mjmooney]

Woman discovers flesh-eating maggots in her brain after holiday to Peru

By Josie Ensor

3:15PM BST 16 Jul 2013

 

 

Rochelle Harris, 27, from Derby, started to get blinding headaches after she returned from her trip.

 

She thought nothing of it, but within hours she had developed excruciating shooting pains down one side of her face and had started to hear strange scratching sounds in her head.

 

She became so concerned she went to hospital, where doctors thought it could be a minor ear infection.

 

However, she was referred to the ear nose and throat (ENT) team for further investigation to rule out a more sinister problem.

 

Miss Harris said that as her ear was being examined, the ENT specialist fell silent.

 

Miss Harris said: "My Mum asked her 'Can you see what it is?' and the doctor said 'If you don't mind I'd prefer to speak to the registrar before I tell you anything'.

 

"My Mum said 'Please tell us' and that's when the doctor said 'You've got maggots in your ear'. I burst into tears instantly."

 

She was then given an emergency brain scan to find out how many there were and if they had done any damage.

 

There was a risk that they were migrating through her head. If one reached her brain it could cause meningitis, fatal bleeding and if one ate through her facial nerve she might be left facially paralysed.

 

It showed that no damage had been done to Miss Harris's ear drum, blood vessels or facial nerve.

 

But they discovered that the maggots had chewed a 12mm hole into her ear canal.

 

Doctors then tried to drown them by flooding the ear canal with olive oil.

 

"I had to stay and wait overnight to see if the treatment worked," said Miss Harris. "It was the longest few hours of my life. I just wanted them out of me. Knowing what was causing the sensations and sounds made it all the worse."

 

The maggots had all somehow managed to survive and when surgeons explored her ear using a microscope and speculum they were shocked to discover that eight of them had managed to push their way through the ear.

 

Rochelle said she remembered walking through a swarm of flies when in Peru and a fly had got inside her ear. But once she had shooed it away she thought nothing more of it.

 

She said she has suffered no long-term side-effects. Miss Harris's ordeal features in a new Discovery Channel documentary, called Bugs, Bites and Parasites that follows the work of specialists who are faced with patients exhibiting a variety of mysterious symptoms - more often than not from people who have travelled abroad.

Telegraph

Edited July 23, 2013 by mjmooney

[maqroll]

 

Horrifying

[theunderstudy]

Sounds a larva minute

[tonyh29]

I've swam with sharks countless times , bull sharks included ( they are responsible for most human attacks if I recall ) .... 99% of the time they are harmless enough

Saying that I probably wouldn't have swam where that girl did against advice

Ooh where abouts?

I'm struggling to fit some decent shark diving into my travelling itinerary next year. I really wanted to go to Port Lincoln, but air fares in Australia make it a big no.

The diving in Mauritius was good ... bull sharks mainly ....but a few reef sharks and white tips .... Tobago had a couple of black tips but Fiji had the biggest concentration ... Mainly as they feed the sharks but I'd have said we had about a dozen bull sharks , loads of reef and white tips and just the one Tiger Shark .... On paper it's bad form to feed them as they do there but the company do a deal with the local fisherman and pay them not to fish in that reef and as a result the reef is actually in better shape than it previously was ( fish wise )

I found Oz airfares really cheap ... virgin blue in particular but they may not operate to Port Lincoln

[Shillzz]

 

 

I've swam with sharks countless times , bull sharks included ( they are responsible for most human attacks if I recall ) .... 99% of the time they are harmless enough

Saying that I probably wouldn't have swam where that girl did against advice

Ooh where abouts?

I'm struggling to fit some decent shark diving into my travelling itinerary next year. I really wanted to go to Port Lincoln, but air fares in Australia make it a big no.

The diving in Mauritius was good ... bull sharks mainly ....but a few reef sharks and white tips .... Tobago had a couple of black tips but Fiji had the biggest concentration ... Mainly as they feed the sharks but I'd have said we had about a dozen bull sharks , loads of reef and white tips and just the one Tiger Shark .... On paper it's bad form to feed them as they do there but the company do a deal with the local fisherman and pay them not to fish in that reef and as a result the reef is actually in better shape than it previously was ( fish wise )

I found Oz airfares really cheap ... virgin blue in particular but they may not operate to Port Lincoln

 

 

Funnily enough, I was watching a Youtube video just yesterday of a group of divers feeding sharks in Fiji. It seriously made me want to go - Beqa Lagoon I think it was called.

 

Unfortunately I just don't have time to go to Port Lincoln, and even if I did, the tours start at around £300 each, just for a day's cage diving. One for another year methinks.

[Stevo985]

 

 

Beqa Lagoon I think it was called.

 

 

Did he play yesterday?

[Shillzz]

 

 

 

Beqa Lagoon I think it was called.

 

 

Did he play yesterday?

 

 

I think he was Luton's Shoal-Keeper.

[BOF]

I've swam with sharks countless times , bull sharks included ( they are responsible for most human attacks if I recall ) .... 99% of the time they are harmless enough

Saying that I probably wouldn't have swam where that girl did against advice

Aaaaaand you can chalk another fatal one up to the Bull shark today. At least this time it had the decency to attack someone who was already drowning.

 

As lifeguards approached to pull a drowning Brazilian teenager from the water, she suffered a second, fatal misfortune -- a shark attack.

Bruni Gobbi, 18, and a cousin were on the verge of drowning at Boa Viagem beach in the northeastern Brazil city of Recife on Monday, according to the local government's social defense secretariat.

Lifeguards responded immediately to try to save them, and in the midst of the rescue, a shark attacked Gobbi's left leg, the secretariat said.

Rescuers managed to move her to shore, and then to a hospital, but she died later that night, CNN affiliate Globo TV reported.

"The rescuers came in a matter of five minutes, but to us it felt like five years," Gobbi's cousin, Daniele Gobbi, told Globo TV.

Bruna Gobbi became the first woman to die from a shark attack in the coastal state of Pernambuco since record-keeping began in 1992, O Globo reported.

"We knew there were risks of an attack, but I didn't think that it would happen in the shallow (water), but in the deep," the cousin said.

Sharks have attacked 57 people off of Recife's coast since 1992, according to state data. Of those, 40 percent of the attacks happened at Boa Viagem beach.

"We speculate, based on the season and the conditions, that it was a bull shark," Rosangela Lessa, president of the agency that monitors shark attacks, told Globo TV.

The local government's security cameras captured the attack and rescue on video.

A lifeguard's Jet Ski-type craft can be seen approaching the stranded swimmers when a sudden flurry of movement creates a splash around Gobbi, followed by a pool of red around her.

An autopsy will be performed, Globo TV reported.

WARNING : NSFW & graphic so you've been warned. This is a liveleak of the aftermath.

[Stevo985]

I can confirm that that is rather graphic.

[BOF]

Which let's be honest, is only going to encourage people to watch it

[Stevo985]

Yeah. I watched it at work too. Such a rebel.

[CarewsEyebrowDesigner]

 

Woman discovers flesh-eating maggots in her brain after holiday to Peru

By Josie Ensor

3:15PM BST 16 Jul 2013

 

 

Rochelle Harris, 27, from Derby, started to get blinding headaches after she returned from her trip.

 

She thought nothing of it, but within hours she had developed excruciating shooting pains down one side of her face and had started to hear strange scratching sounds in her head.

 

She became so concerned she went to hospital, where doctors thought it could be a minor ear infection.

 

However, she was referred to the ear nose and throat (ENT) team for further investigation to rule out a more sinister problem.

 

Miss Harris said that as her ear was being examined, the ENT specialist fell silent.

 

Miss Harris said: "My Mum asked her 'Can you see what it is?' and the doctor said 'If you don't mind I'd prefer to speak to the registrar before I tell you anything'.

 

"My Mum said 'Please tell us' and that's when the doctor said 'You've got maggots in your ear'. I burst into tears instantly."

 

She was then given an emergency brain scan to find out how many there were and if they had done any damage.

 

There was a risk that they were migrating through her head. If one reached her brain it could cause meningitis, fatal bleeding and if one ate through her facial nerve she might be left facially paralysed.

 

It showed that no damage had been done to Miss Harris's ear drum, blood vessels or facial nerve.

 

But they discovered that the maggots had chewed a 12mm hole into her ear canal.

 

Doctors then tried to drown them by flooding the ear canal with olive oil.

 

"I had to stay and wait overnight to see if the treatment worked," said Miss Harris. "It was the longest few hours of my life. I just wanted them out of me. Knowing what was causing the sensations and sounds made it all the worse."

 

The maggots had all somehow managed to survive and when surgeons explored her ear using a microscope and speculum they were shocked to discover that eight of them had managed to push their way through the ear.

 

Rochelle said she remembered walking through a swarm of flies when in Peru and a fly had got inside her ear. But once she had shooed it away she thought nothing more of it.

 

She said she has suffered no long-term side-effects. Miss Harris's ordeal features in a new Discovery Channel documentary, called Bugs, Bites and Parasites that follows the work of specialists who are faced with patients exhibiting a variety of mysterious symptoms - more often than not from people who have travelled abroad.

Telegraph

 

 

[Webbs]

 

WARNING : NSFW & graphic so you've been warned. This is a liveleak of the aftermath.

 

To watch or not to watch? 

[AVFCforever1991]

Watch.

[Stevo985]

It's not THAT bad really. It's just her leg hanging off. You don't see it happening or anything

[Wainy316]

Is she concious in that footage?

[8pints]

Here's a grizzly shark,

 

WARNING - There's a lot of red stuff

 

Edited July 24, 2013 by 8pints

[tonyh29]

It's not THAT bad really. It's just her leg hanging off. You don't see it happening or anything

 

 

Edit  ..

 

Hadn't realised she had died .....

Edited July 24, 2013 by tonyh29