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Sarah Danser, who appeared connected 5 seasons of Naked and Afraid and Naked and Afraid XL, died Oct. 22 aft being hospitalized pursuing a car clang successful Hawaii.
By Gibson Johns Oct 25, 2024 1:13 PMTags
In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2024
Family and friends are mourning the nonaccomplishment of Sarah Danser.
The Naked and Afraid prima passed distant Oct. 22 aft being hospitalized pursuing successful a car mishap successful Kahala, Hawaii, according to section TV presumption KSLA.
The clang occurred 2 days earlier Oct. 20, erstwhile a antheral operator mislaid power of a car that Danser was a rider successful and struck a parked vehicle, according to Honolulu police. Local authorities indicated that velocity was apt a factor, but drugs and intoxicant were not.
The operator was hospitalized successful superior condition, arsenic was a pistillate successful the parked car, KSLA reports. According to the outlet, different antheral Another antheral successful the parked car refused treatment.
The 34-year-old seasoned world TV prima archetypal appeared connected the Discovery Channel survivalist series' eighth play successful 2017. She returned to the amusement for play 11 successful 2020, successful summation to appearing connected Naked and Afraid XL for the installment’s fourth, sixth and seventh seasons.
She had astir precocious appeared connected The CW's Fight to Survive successful 2023.
Danser's begetter Dan Danser and member Jake Danser shared they arrived astatine the infirmary hours earlier she passed.
"I really saw however overmuch of a quality she made successful the lives of others," her begetter told KSLA. "I deliberation she saved my beingness once, diving successful Indonesia."
Her member added, "Magical is the mode to picture her. Sarah had this affirmative vigor astir her that conscionable truly filled the situation that she was in."
Sarah Danser/Instagram
Danser was a Colorado native, and her household noted that she had been surviving successful Hawaii for implicit a decade. The two-time bosom crab subsister worked arsenic a vessel skipper and lived part-time connected a vessel successful the section Kahala vessel basin.
"Heavy hearts arsenic we accidental goodbye to a bully person and large captain," her leader Island Divers Hawaii wrote successful a Facebook tribute. "Sarah brought specified large vigor to everyone she came successful interaction with. You volition beryllium greatly missed."
Tim Mason, a person of Danser's and a chap diver, said that the section diving assemblage was inspired by her and would big ample ticker parties for her world TV appearances.
“She was smart. She went nether the water. She recovered food, slugs and snails and worldly similar that,” Mason told KSLA. “She knew what to bash to past and she did great.”
Fellow Naked and Afraid star Melissa Lauren besides honored her precocious costar.
"Sarah was of the astir adventurous souls I’ve ever met," she wrote connected Facebook. "She wasn’t lone a fierce survivalist connected Naked and Afraid (she completed XL successful South Africa with me), but a Breast Cancer subsister who kept an inspiring and affirmative cognition done her treatment."
She added, "She loved the ocean, quality and exploring – I ever considered her a ‘modern time pirate.'"
