 A team of researchers made a truly horrific discovery while investigating a fatal shark attack at a hugely popular resort for tourists. A new BBC documentary which airs on Tuesday night explores the rise in attacks despite sharp decline in shark population. While making the programme in June 2023, a Russian tourist was mauled to death by a tiger shark in the Red Sea just meters from the shore in front of his father. On July 2, 2022, not far from the recent attack, Sahl Hasheesh resort was bustling with tourists, with hundreds splashing in the sea when Elisabeth Sauer, 68, was snorkelling in shallow water less than two meters deep when she was bitten. Despite severe injuries she managed to swim back to shore, but later died in an ambulance before reaching the nearest hospital. More than 40 people helplessly watched from the jetty. Subsequently, authorities shut down the beach for three days to investigate, but the BBC documentary tells of the chilling moment researchers made the worst discovery imaginable. Elisabeth Sauer was killed by a tiger shark in front of onlookers(Picture: Facebook/The Green Kramsach) They found the mutilated remains of another swimmer a few hundred meters along the bay – but this time there were no eyewitnesses. From the remains, the body was identified as Roxana Donisan, 44, a Romanian tourist who had been travelling alone and hadn't been seen by her hotel staff for longer than a day. Ralph Collier from the Shark Research Institute, who claims to have probably examined more shark attack victims than anyone else on the planet, explained: 'They had to investigate two incidents and uncover which came first. Roxana Donisan's mutilated body was discovered nearby (Picture: Facebook) 'Now they had a big jigsaw puzzle they had to put together.' It was clear however, from examining the remains of Donisan, it was 'obvious she had been in the water f){kind=link}
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A team of researchers made a truly horrific discovery while investigating a fatal shark attack at a hugely popular resort for tourists.
A new BBC documentary which airs on Tuesday night explores the rise in attacks despite sharp decline in shark population.
While making the programme in June 2023, a Russian tourist was mauled to death by a tiger shark in the Red Sea just meters from the shore in front of his father.
On July 2, 2022, not far from the recent attack, Sahl Hasheesh resort was bustling with tourists, with hundreds splashing in the sea when Elisabeth Sauer, 68, was snorkelling in shallow water less than two meters deep when she was bitten.