Family and mates are mourning a Bellingham, Washington, girl who died in an obvious shark assault throughout a Hawaii trip earlier this month. Just days earlier than her dying, Kristine Allen wrote she was “following dreams” by studying to surf in Maui.
Allen, 60, vanished Dec. 8 whereas snorkeling as a big shark was seen cruising the waters close to Keawakapu Point in south Maui, her husband Blake Allen instructed The Bellingham Herald.
The U.S. Coast Guard, the Maui Fire Department and ocean rescue groups looked for the lady from the water and by sky to no avail, and the search was known as off after 40 hours.
Department of Land and Natural Resources spokesman Dan Dennison known as it a “possible shark-human encounter” at Dec. 9 news convention.
Kristine Allen, known as “Kristi” by her mates, was a therapeutic massage therapist and life coach. A memorial is deliberate sooner or later in Bellingham, in accordance with her husband.
In her final public Facebook publish, Kristine Allen instructed mates how a lot she was enthusiastic about her trip. “Following dreams!” she wrote . “I have wanted to learn to surf for years. I am committed to create a life I love in big and small ways.”
Allen and her husband had been each snorkeling when her husband and different witnesses reported seeing what was believed to be a Tiger shark swimming about 50 yards from shore. Blake Allen instructed officers that he noticed the shark swim by however couldn’t see his spouse. The shark swam by a number of instances earlier than he returned to shore and reported his spouse lacking, the Department of Land and Natural Resources stated.
A snorkel set and a part of a washing go well with had been discovered, Hawaii News Now reported.
The incident got here three months after a girl suffered a “serious” shark chew in a bay on Maui’s north shore.
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