In recent days there have been two shark attacks on a beach in Recife, in northeastern Brazil.
This Monday a young woman was bitten in several parts of the body, and they had to amputate his arm. At 500 meters, but last Sunday, a 14-year-old boy was bitten and they amputated his leg, Infobae indicated.
To these two events that occurred on the beach of Piedade -municipality of Jaboatão dos Guararapes– another one is added to them in the same region, so there was three cases of shark attacks in recent weeks.
The first was on February 20 in the municipality of Olinda, a neighbor of Recife, when a shark attacked a surfer who survived being bitten.
The Regional Shark Incident Monitoring Committee (Cemit) told Agencia EFE that its specialists They are “analyzing” the two cases and the “short interval” that existed between them.
Cemit indicated that 36 kilometers of beaches between the municipalities of Olinda and Jaboatão dos Guararapes, passing through Recife, the capital of the region, They were described in a “critical situation” and with “risk of new attacks.”
The governor of Pernambuco, Raquel Lyra, visited on Monday the three survivors who They are admitted to the same hospital. Lyra announced measures to “intensify actions”which start with the decision to resume scientific research in this regard, suspended since 2015.
At 150 points in the Recife metropolitan area there are signs about the danger of shark attacks. In the state of Pernambuco, whose capital is Recife, there have been 77 shark attacks since 1992. Ten of these were in the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, which is located some 550 kilometers from the mainland coast.
According to a National Geographic audiovisual report carried out in 2019, Recife has almost 50% of the registered shark attacks in South America.
The species that attack people the most in the area are the tiger shark and the sardinian or bull shark.
The first can measure almost 5.5m and weigh more than 600kg. “They have serrated teeth that allow them to tear seabirds, turtles and even humans,” the report says.
On the other hand, the Sardinian or bull shark “bites harder, pound for pound, than any other large shark.” “They are fast and aggressive. And they are usually found in the same shallow coastal waters as humans.”indica National Geographic.
