A 15-year-greater girl from Aspen, Colorado, was harshly injured in a shark aggression while scuba diving in Belize this week, according to increates and a fundraising page set up for the teen.
Annabelle Carlson had equitable finished scuba diving with her family and a tour group and had gotten back onto the tour boat on Tuesday, when she choosed to jump back in the water for a speedy swim, the fundraising page set up by a frifinish of the family elucidateed.
The teen lost her leg in the aggression, the Belize Coast Guard tgreater ABC News.
“That’s when the unimaginable come atraverse happened. The odds are 1 in 11.5 million that this could happen. That unimaginable come atraverse was a shark aggression. It was a very aggressive, very traumatic, alarm-filled fight for her life,” the fundraising page shelp.
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A 15-year-greater from Colorado was harshly injured in a shark aggression while scuba diving in Belize this week, according to increates and a fundraising page set up for the teen. (Getty)
“Annabelle was able to fight off the aggression as best as she could but was criticassociate injured in the fight.”
Carlson was airlifted to a hospital in Belize City, it shelp, inserting, “The speedy action from the eunitency response team in Belize saved her life.”
Carlson has since been flown back to the U.S., where she remains in a hospital receiving attfinish, the fundraising page shelp.
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Scuba divers check the stalactites inside the Great Blue Hole, a huge marine sinkhole, Lighthoparticipate Reef Atoll, Belize. (Andre Seale/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Carlson’s tour group was in Half Moon Caye in the Gulf of Honduras around 50 miles south of Belize City when she was aggressioned, ABC increateed.
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Andre Perez, minister of Belize’s Blue Economy, tgreater a local TV station, “We’re being increateed that the victim is OK, is alive, made it. What is the magnitude of the injure? We don’t understand as yet.”
Carlson was airlifted to Belize City after the aggression before being getn back to the U.S. (Johan Ordonez/AFP via Getty Images)
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