Young man killed by shark while diving for scallops off Pacific coast of Mexico

A younger fisherman diving for scallops was killed by a shark off the Pacific coast of Mexico, authorities announced.

The person, recognized by media reports as 22-year-old Víctor Alejandro Soto García, was reportedly attacked by an awesome white shark on Dec. 29 off Yavaros within the Mexican state of Sonora. 

“The physique of the younger man was taken by his fishermen colleagues to the pier in Yavaros,” the Sonora Civil Safety company CEPC said on social media.

Authorities stated the sufferer was not sporting an anti-shark repellent bracelet, which makes use of electrical pulses or magnets to discourage the predator.

After the deadly assault, the Sonora Civil Safety company urged fishermen to “have the mandatory preventive measures to hold out their actions.”

Shark assaults are comparatively uncommon in Mexico however the incident marks at the very least the third lethal assault within the waters off Mexico in a couple of month. In mid-December, officers stated a person was killed and a girl was injured in an assault by both a shark or a crocodile at Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Zihuatanejo.

In early December, a Mexican woman died after she was severely bitten within the leg by a shark simply off the seaside city of Melaque, west of the seaport of Manzanillo. The 26-year-old girl was attempting to spice up her youngster aboard the floating platform when the shark bit her, officers stated on the time. 

A minimum of two different folks throughout the globe had been additionally killed by sharks in December. A 39-year-old surfer died after a shark encounter in Maui on Dec. 30. A couple of weeks earlier than that, a woman from Boston died after she was attacked by a shark whereas paddle boarding with a member of the family within the Bahamas.

Wildlife consultants say that almost all shark assaults are literally a case of mistaken identity.

Sharks are literally not harmful to people, the NOAA says, noting that solely a couple of dozen of greater than 300 species of sharks have been concerned in human-related assaults.

Generally, unprovoked shark bites have decreased over the previous decade. In 2022, there have been 57 unprovoked bites worldwide, which is considerably decrease than the 10-year common of 74 unprovoked bites yearly, in accordance with the University of Florida’s data.