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A woman is missing and feared dead after she and her husband reportedly got into a fight with a shark while snorkelling.
The unnamed woman, aged 60 and from Washington State, US, was snorkelling 50 yards off Keawakapu Point on the Hawaiian island of Maui on December 8.
Dan Dennison, a spokesperson for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), said her husband spotted the shark and rushed to tell her, returning to shore and calling 911 when he couldn't find her.
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Local news outlet KHNL reported that he told the authorities they both fought the shark, but that only he made it back to shore.
Shark warning signs were erected, closing off the popular tourist location, while the DLNR and US Coast Guard searched for the woman using helicopters and planes, all to no avail.
The Maui Fire Department also had multiple firefighters on skis helping.
The hunt was discontinued after 17 search efforts in 40 hours, spanning a 306-mile radius of ocean.
According to Hawaii News Now, a snorkel set and part of a bathing suit were found.
Witnesses said that the shark was a tiger shark, with some estimating it to have been roughly 10ft to 12ft long.
"I mean the scary thing about it, at this stage, is there is a person just totally missing," beachgoer Peter Gannon, a Canadian tourist, told Hawaii News Now.
The incident comes after another shark attack on the island of Maui back in September, during which a woman's left arm and part of her right hand were bitten off.
Hawaii is the US state with the second highest rate of shark attacks, second only to Florida.
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