unheard of" second fatal great white shark attack in same area this year
Johannesburg — A mother has been killed in the second deadly shark attack to hit the same popular tourist area this year. South Africa's National Sea Rescue Institute said it was alerted just before 8 a.m. on Sunday morning and immediately launched a sea rescue craft off a beach in the Plettenberg Bay area.
The woman's body was found just minutes later. The 39-year-old victim was identified as Kimon Bisogno, a pizza restaurateur who was well known in her local Cape Town community. She helped start a local soup kitchen that served pasta to homeless people each week.
Bisogno was on on the beach with her husband and young child, on vacation several hundred miles from their home in Cape Town, at the time of the attack.
Dr. Sara Andreotti of Stellenbosch University has studied great whites off the South African coast for the last 15 years and told CBS News that two attacks in one year is extremely rare.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-africa-shark-attack-mother-kimon-bisogno-killed-2nd-fatal-attack-this-year/