Overview
- Deivson Rocha Dantas was attacked around 2 p.m. Thursday while playing in the water with friends off Olinda’s Del Chifre beach in Pernambuco.
- The shark bit his right thigh, causing catastrophic arterial bleeding and cardiorespiratory arrest, and he was declared dead on arrival at Tricentenário Hospital, according to the treating doctor.
- Beachgoers of similar age pulled him from the sea; a cousin said the shark “ate almost his entire leg” and claimed an ambulance did not reach him in time.
- CEMIT said it will step up shark surveillance and restart a suspended program to track sharks with microchips after the incident.
- Authorities report more than 80 shark attacks in Pernambuco since 1992, including multiple fatalities, with warning signs posted across the coast and four at Del Chifre.