CBS News confirmed that both were Carnival Cruise ship passengers on Caribbean trips with their families. They were sailing on the Mardi Gras and Carnival Elation ships. CBS described Celebration Key as "a private resort on Grand Bahama Island that only Carnival cruise passengers can use."

Police said "a 63-year-old male resident of the USA was spearfishing when he was attacked by a shark, sustaining severe injuries."

Two Americans have died from apparent drownings in separate incidents on the same day at the same Bahamas resort, officials said on Sunday.

Two Carnival Cruise Line passengers drowned Friday while swimming at the company's new Bahamas resort. Police said both were Americans.

Two more tropical systems trail Hurricane Erin, which is following a projected course that brushes past the East Coast without making landfall.

TONTITOWN, Ark. — Two U.S. cruise passengers drowned in separate incidents at Carnival Cruise Line’s new private resort in the Bahamas, authorities confirmed. Now, an Arkansas man is sharing that he witnessed one of the incidents.

Two American tourists were injured after an apparent shark attack while swimming in the popular Bahamian resort area Bimini Bay in February. Bimini Bay is part of the westernmost island in the Bahamas, some 50 miles from Miami.

The man was yanked from the water with severe injuries and rushed to a local clinic before being airlifted to the US for additional treatment, police said.

A 63-year-old American man, who was attacked by a shark while spearfishing near Big Grand Cay, The Bahamas, has been airlifted to the United States (US) for medical treatment. A statement from the Royal Bahamas Police Force did not identify the American national,

A shark attack critically injured an American tourist in the Bahamas on Sunday, Aug. 17, island officials said. The incident took place about 1 p.m. local time while a 63-year-old man was spearfishing in the Atlantic Ocean near Big Grand Cay, according to the Royal Bahamian Police Force.

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