The woman and her family, who were passengers on Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas, were visiting New Providence for the day when they booked an excursion.
The tour operator took the family to Green Cay, which is about half a mile northwest of Rose Island, where a 21-year-old American woman was killed in a shark attack in 2019.
“The family is believed to have been snorkeling in the waters and this area is known to visitors for snorkeling,” police said. “It is further reported that family members observed a bull shark attacking the woman.”
Police said family members and tour company employees rescued the victim.
She was then taken to the mainland of New Providence where she was pronounced dead, police said, adding that she had sustained injuries to her upper body.
The incident comes a month after an eight-year-old British boy survived an attack by three sharks in the Bahamas last month.
Shark attacks on humans are generally rare. In 2021, 73 confirmed unprovoked attacks took place worldwide, of which 9 were fatal, which is higher than the annual global average of five unprovoked deaths, according to the Natural History Museum’s International Shark Attack File. Florida.