Story Via Washington Post - An American woman has died of injuries sustained in a shark attack in the Bahamas, the State Department said Thursday.
Jordan Lindsey, 21, of Torrance, Calif., was snorkeling with her family during a vacation in the Bahamas when she was attacked by three sharks Wednesday, the Associated Press reported.
The attack near Rose Island killed Lindsey, AP said, citing Royal Bahamas Police Force Deputy Commissioner Paul Rolle. The island is a small strip of land northeast of Nassau.
Lindsey was brought to shore and pronounced dead at a hospital, the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism said in a statement. The ministry said another government agency “issued precautionary advisories to the public” in response to the attack.
An investigation into Lindsey’s death is ongoing, the ministry said.
“We can confirm a U.S. citizen in the Bahamas succumbed to her injuries following a shark attack on June 26,” a State Department spokeswoman told The Washington Post in a statement. “Out of respect for her family during this difficult time, we do not have additional information to provide.”
Lindsey was a communication studies major at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, the university’s president, Timothy Law Snyder, said in a statement. She was a “devoted animal lover and climate change advocate” who had transferred from Santa Monica College, Snyder said. Lindsey participated in Loyola Marymount’s entrepreneurship society and worked at its Center for Urban Resilience, among other activities.
