A 55-year-old Canadian woman had both her hands bitten off during a shark attack while only a few yards from shore on the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean

And pretty tragically, this woman had her hands bitten off by a shark after she reportedly ‘tried to take a photo of the animal ’. Named in local reports as Nathalie Ross, the Canadian was in the shallow waters off Thompson’s Cove Beach on the Turks and Caicos Island in the morning of 7 February when the attack took place.

A Canadian woman suffered severe injuries when she attempted to take a photo of a shark near a Turks and Caicos beach. Wading in the shallows, she tried to engage with the shark so she could capture a picture, reports The Daily Mail. Instead, the shark bit off both of her hands.