Shark Victim's Fiancé Blames Dive Operator For Her Death: Report

MANHATTAN, NY — The fiancé of the New Yorker killed by a tiger shark last week is faulting the Costa Rican diving company for not doing enough to protect its divers.

Dr. Jeffrey Rosenthal, who was engaged to the Wall Street executive Rohina Bhandari, told the New York Postthat the diving company Bhandari was traveling with should have done more to protect her.

"Apparently they didn’t have any protection — the divers or the instructors had nothing to ward off any of these fish, sharks," Rosenthal told the Post. "I don’t understand that aspect of it, that there was no protection for her or for the other guests for that matter...I just feel that the safety precautions they took were not as good as they should have had."

Bhandari, an equity manager for a Manhattan firm, was visiting a remote island in Costa Rica when she was attacked by a female tiger shark while scuba diving. The shark mauled Bhandari's legs, and she died from her wounds on Friday.

Rosenthal and Bhandari's friends remembered her as an outgoing and kind person.

"We’d go to an affair or party, and within 5 minutes she’d know everyone in the place," Rosenthal told the Post. "She was someone who befriended everyone."

Bhandari's friend Jon Benjamin remembered her as "generous and gregarious."

"Desperately sad to hear of the tragic, untimely passing of my dear friend," he wrote on Twitter. "She was a mainstay of my social life in NYC a decade ago, visited us in Chile and so kindly lent us her apartment in NYC in July this year."

Image credit: Ben Gabbe / Stringer / Getty Images Entertainment. Pictured: Rohina Bhandari, right, photographed in 2014.