Shark Attack in Misamis Oriental Prevents Retrieval of Dead Body

In El Salvador City, Misamis Oriental, rescuers were trying to take the body that has been afloat for days but has been aggressively attacked by sharks.

A Bantay Dagat or local coastguard member Joel Caballa tried to reach out to a radio station in the said city. He has allegedly seen a floating body of a dead man just about 10 kilometers away from the shore of a coastal village of the city.

According to him, the Bantay Dagat was alerted by local fishermen because of the sight of a floating body. They seek help to retrieve the body which the Bantay Dagat and other local fishermen have addressed by patrolling to the area.

However, all their forces never made it since there were sharks circling around the dead man’s body. They have reported that the sharks were more than about 2 meters long. These sharks are even aggressively keeping the body to themselves. The limbs including the hands and feet were already consumed by sharks.

Though the torso of the dead body has been intact, the locals fear that this will also be consumed because of the aggressiveness of the shark. Should they fail to retrieve the body, the sharks may consume every part of it.

The problem that the rescuers have found is that they cannot go nearer than 6 meters. This is so because the huge sharks act aggressively that these may even damage their boats. Every time they attempt to get near, the sharks would attack them ruthlessly.

They were waiting for the police for reinforcement because they do not have enough equipment to retrieve the body on their own and to drive the sharks away. Plus, they might be posing danger on themselves because of their supposedly good deed of recovering the floating body.

/Source: Interaksyon.com/ Sarah Gomez /

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