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Radisson Collection Hotel, Moscow

Stay in palatial style on the moskva river.

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Welcome to our striking hotel with modern amenities in Moscow

Discover Moscow from one of its most iconic architectural symbols nestled along the banks of the Moskva River. Inside the landmark property, grandeur and opulence reign: from beautifully appointed rooms, suites, and serviced apartments to impressive amenities such as the 19 elegant restaurants, innovative sports and wellness facilities, and a panoramic bar on the 31st floor. Palatial surroundings, an excellent location, and exclusive services await.

Centrally located, the Radisson Collection Hotel, Moscow offers excellent transportation links to the four surrounding airports and top attractions. The hotel also commands a flotilla of ten yachts, offering year-round river cruises for a unique perspective of city landmarks.

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Individual room, collection superior room.

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Collection Superior Room - City View

Collection superior room - white house view, collection premium room.

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Collection Executive Room

Collection suite.

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Romantic suite, grand residential suite, presidential suite, one bedroom apartment.

Breakfast buffet

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Year-round indoor swimming

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Meeting facilities/social space

On-site spa and wellness facility

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Accessibility features available

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Cashless Payment

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Free coffee and tea in the lobby

Concierge service

Cots available

Cots available upon request

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Dry cleaning services

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Upon prior request and subject to availability

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Express check-out

Grab & Go

Delicious food options to go

Grab & Go Breakfast

Your Home Away From Home

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Hybrid Conference

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Hybrid Meeting

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Non-smoking

Non-smoking rooms available

On-site dining

On-site restaurant(s)

Online food ordering

Online Food Ordering

Room service

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Customized running trails around the hotel

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Smoking rooms available

Soothing yoga sessions

Our Moscow hotel offers ample venue options for customized events. Host a meeting in our unique library venue or plan a reception in the Banquet Hall. A dedicated Meetings & Events team will help you select from our versatile meeting rooms, halls, and other unique venues to plan the perfect gathering.

Nearby Attractions

Bolshoi theatre.

Spend an unforgettable evening at this legendary theatre - the oldest in the city - with its world-leading resident opera and ballet troupes.

Moscow Kremlin

Snap a selfie outside Moscow's most famous historical and political landmark: an impressive walled complex of cathedrals, palaces and state offices.

Fall in love with the residents of Russia's largest zoo, now a huge scientific, educational, and conservation institution.

How to get to the Radisson Collection Hotel, Moscow

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River Cruise on Luxurious Radisson Boat

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Equipped with ice-breaking technology, these huge fancy yachts are the only river cruisers running all year around. The round trip journey takes two and a half hours and floats past all the big sights like the White House, Novodevichy monastery and the Kremlin. There’s a large open air observation deck up top, while the main body of the ship houses a restaurant with a dance floor for a romantic post dinner dance. For a particularly romantic experience take one of the evening boats and admire the bright lights of the city skyline at night.

The most relaxing and picturesque tour that Moscow can offer: a great way to see the city center and its main attractions. This is a perfect alternative to exploring the city by car, if you only have time to do sightseeing during weekday rush hours.

Your English-speaking guide is eager to share every bit of their knowledge about the surrounding landscape, the architecture and historical details.

We conduct Moscow river tour on Radisson Flotilla boats all year around!  It’s warm inside during winter months, while there’s air conditioning during hot summer days. You may also treat yourself to drinks, lunch or dinner on board (drinks and food are not included in tour price).

The cost of an excursion with a personal guide for 1 person

Quay at Radisson Collection Hotel

Government Headquarters ("the White House")

Kievsky Railway Central

Novodevichy Convent

Luzhniki Stadium

Academy of Sciences

Monument to Peter I

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

Moscow Kremlin

St.Basil's Cathedral

Novospassky Monastery

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Enjoy a luxury stay by the Royal Yacht Club

Enjoy a chic stay at our hotel, adjacent to the Royal Yacht Club. We're one kilometer from Vodny metro station, which gets you into Moscow in 27 minutes. Otkritie Arena and Sheremetyevo - A.S. Pushkin International Airport can be reached in 20 minutes. We have a Balinese-inspired spa and a pool with private pods to relax in.

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Non-smoking rooms

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9 Moscow restaurants that won over the Michelin experts

White Rabbit restaurant.

Two Michelin stars: Chef’s Table (1st floor); recommendation: Fireplace Hall (2nd floor)

Artest is located in a two-story 19th-century mansion in central Moscow. On the ground floor is the Chef’s Table (where guests sit at the same table and are personally served dishes from the chef); on the second is a hall with a fireplace. The restaurant, opened only at the beginning of this year by experienced Russian restaurateur Arkady Novikov, takes its name from the first three letters of the given and last names of Artem Estafiev, a young chef from St. Petersburg. Estafiev already has experience of several large restaurants in Russia’s two capitals under his belt, plus internships in Spain and France. Artem uses farm products and creates his own innovations in the restaurant’s “laboratory”, where he makes vinegars from vegetables and berries (carrots, chokeberries, etc.), experiments with Japanese  koji  mushrooms, and keeps products at high temperatures. The exquisite cuisine is complemented by wines (more than 400 on the wine list) and unusual cocktails based on  kombucha  and fermented products.

"Vremya" set: potato, tomato.

What to order: “Vremya” set, blackened vegetables and fruits. Average check: 15,000 – 20,000 rubles (Chef's Table) / 2,800 – 9,000 rubles (Fireplace Hall) Address: 15/2, Trubnikovskiy Pereulok street Website:   artest.rest

2. Twins Garden

Two Michelin Stars, Green Michelin Star, Best Service Award

Since 2017, brothers Ivan and Sergey Berezutsky have been serving creative and hi-tech dishes to guests at their Twins Garden restaurant. In their own laboratory, the chefs combine gastronomy with science: they ferment products, print food with a 3D printer and use freeze drying. Also installed here is a “kinetic farm” with products hanging in the air – symbolizing the 100-hectare farm in the Yaroslavl region from where most of the products are supplied. Part of the farm is located in the forest, so the restaurant always has seasonal berries, herbs and mushrooms at its disposal. The farm also rears goats, cows and poultry, and produces cheeses.

Far Eastern shrimp dumplings with strawberries, asparagus and trout caviar.

In addition to the main menu, you can order the “Rediscover Russia” set with local products from different regions of the country. The second set meal with the telling name “Vegetables” gives you a taste from the tops to roots. The picture is completed by 14 varieties of wines made from vegetables, mushrooms and herbs (how do you like wine made from tomatoes or boletus?!). The restaurant is famed for its extensive wine list, which is more like a book, featuring over 1,000 labels from all over the world.

What to order: “Rediscover Russia” set; Far Eastern shrimp dumplings with strawberries, asparagus and trout caviar.

Average check: 2,500 – 15,000 rubles

Address: 7th/8th floor, 8A, Na Strastnom Shopping Center, Strastnoy Bulvar street

Website:   twinsgarden.ru/en/

3. White Rabbit

One Michelin star

The restaurant is located under a glass dome on the 16th floor of the Smolensky Passage mall and offers a stunning panoramic view of Moscow. The restaurant’s brand chef, Vladimir Mukhin, is ranked the ninth best in the world, according to the Best Chef Awards. He experiments with alternative sources of protein and new technologies, including sensory food design (where color, shape and sound affect how the dish is perceived). Each signature set that Vladimir presents at the chef’s table is an audacious gastronomic performance.

Okroshka with brine and white milk mushrooms in an ice dish.

What to order: “Black Swan” set;  okroshka  soup with brine and white milk mushrooms in an ice dish; Borodino bread with coconut lard; apricot with black caviar.

Average check: 2,500 – 12,500 rubles.

Address: 16th floor, 3 Smolensky Passage Shopping Center, Smolenskaya Ploschad square

Website:   whiterabbitmoscow.ru/en/

Another establishment from the White Rabbit Family alliance offering modern, original fare. Here, chef Anatoly Kazakov riffs on Russian themes, using French techniques. The dishes speak for themselves: Sakhalin scallop with morels and cauliflower; turnip, rutabaga and turnips with honey and feijoa; Pozharsky cutlet with cucumber ketchup and mashed potato with black truffle.

Pigeon with Jerusalem artichoke and soaked cowberries.

What to order:  Pigeon with Jerusalem artichoke and soaked cowberries; crab, millet, Poshekhonsky cheese and sweet Abkhaz lemon jelly in celery root.

Average check: 2,500 – 7,000 rubles.

Address: 2nd floor, 31 VEB.RF Retail and Business Center, Novinsky Bulvar street

Website:   selfiemoscow.ru/en/  

5. Sakhalin

Sakhalin serves a mix of Mediterranean and Asian cuisine, built around fish, shells and other seafood from the Russian Far East. As desired, guests can select them from the icebox or aquarium in the center of the restaurant, which, inter alia, amazes diners with its 360-degree panoramic views of Moscow from the 22nd and 23rd floors. The head chef is Aleksei Kogai, who has worked in the pan-Asian style for the White Rabbit Family alliance since 2011.

“Goldfish” rolls; Tiramisu in the form of a can of black caviar.

What to order: “Goldfish” rolls; Sakhalin salad; Tiramisu in the form of a can of black caviar.

Average check: 3,000 – 11,000 rubles

Address: 22nd floor, Azimut Hotel, 8 Smolenskaya Ulitsa street

Website:   sakhalin-moscow.ru/en/  

This restaurant is located on the second floor of the luxurious National Hotel overlooking the Kremlin. Beluga is described as a restaurant of Russian delicacies: its menu boasts more than 20 types of caviar and one of the world’s longest vodka lists. The head of the kitchen is Evgeny Vikentiev, an avant-garde chef from St Petersburg, who effortlessly combines pike-and-foie gras  pelmeni  with hay-and-mushroom broth, cheesecake with crispy reindeer lichen, and grape snails with buckwheat.

Octopus with coconut kefir and eggplant; Grape snails with buckwheat.

What to order: “Theory of New Delicacies” set.

Average check: 2,500 – 12,000 rubles.

Address: 2nd floor, National Hotel, 15/1 Mokhovaya Ulitsa street

Website:  belugamoscow.ru/en

Located in the historic building of the Metropol Hotel, a stone’s throw from the Bolshoi Theater and the Kremlin. The menu contains four main “stories” from chef Andrei Shmakov: “Healthy Lifestyle”, “Dacha”, “Farm” and “Russia”, each consisting of four dishes. For example, the “Russia” set tempts diners with duck-and-cherry borsch and muksun with warm potatoes. There is a separate menu section with six types of caviar (served with buckwheat fritters, potatoes, pickled cucumbers or smetana), plus more traditional offerings, including desserts. Andrei Shmakov, who created the menu, joined the Metropol kitchen in 2013, after previous stints in Estonia and St Petersburg, having trained at the legendary Noma in Copenhagen and Chez Dominique in Helsinki.

Beef jerky and smoked beetroot with parmesan and mustard ice cream.

What to order:  Beef jerky and smoked beetroot with parmesan and mustard ice cream; salmon, cod and halibut pie with asparagus and herb and caviar sauce; pie with pine nuts, chocolate, chanterelles and pine-flavored ice cream.

Average check: 2,500 – 6,000 rubles

Address: Metropol Hotel, 2 Teatralny Proezd street

Website:   savvarest.ru/en/  

8. Grand Cru

This wine restaurant in a prestigious area of ​​Moscow near Patriarch’s Ponds is run by French chef David Hemmerle, who has experience of working at exclusive restaurants in France and the UAE under his belt. Hemmerle’s menu at Grand Cru is rich in seasonal, local produce combined with expertly prepared sauces.  Très français .

Stuffed farm chicken breast with chanterelles.

What to order:  Stuffed farm chicken breast with chanterelles; young carrots and ginger sauce; tart with Kamchatka crab mousse and pike caviar.

Average check: 3,000 – 7,000 rubles

Address: 22/2 Malaya Bronnaya street.

Website:   grandcru.ru/en/

9. Biologie

One Michelin star, Green Michelin star

Opened about a year ago, the Biologie gastrobar with its laconic menu is located in a wooden building in a Moscow suburb; the dining area is decorated in a chalet style. Chef Ekaterina Alekhina adheres to the tenets of conscious consumption, respect for nature and minimal food waste in the kitchen.

Grilled scallop with beurre noisette and cream based on spent coffee grounds and pears.

What to order:  Grilled scallop with  beurre   noisette  and cream based on spent coffee grounds and pears.

Average check: 2,100 – 4,000 rubles

Address: 30/2 Lenin street, Ilyinskoe village

Website:   biologie.ru/en/ Average-check information comes from the Michelin Guide.

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THE LEGEND OF MOSCOW ON THE DOORSTEP OF THE KREMLIN

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A place for connoisseurs of beauty

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About the restaurant

BUTLER – an Italian restaurant on Patriarch ponds from the GINZA PROJECT holding. The same mansion in the legendary place of Moscow, with irreproachable Sicilian cuisine, famous hospitality and the highest level of service. Here you will find the greenest terrace of Moscow in summer and an almost fairytale forest in the center of the metropolis in winter.

BUTLER is a place for the connoisseurs of beauty. And beauty is a balance of the world's best cuisine, carefully read by maestro Giuseppe Davi, a setting where there is no place for trifles, and an atmosphere that we carefully think through.

With love and care we select for you not only the menu dishes. Our jazz evenings with the participation of the world-class guest stars are especially popular among the most demanding connoisseurs of this musical direction.

Especially for intimate dinners in a narrow circle, the restaurant provides separate rooms with VIP service, equipped like luxury rooms in the hotel. Whatever you choose — a family brunch, a children's party, a date, a business lunch or a festive event with a lot of friends — you will have a great time with us.

BUTLER — we are always glad to meet you in the same mansion on the Patriarch ponds!

GIUSEPPE DAVI

Giuseppe was born in northern Italy, but had spent every summer with his grandmother in Sicily. It was there where Davi's interest not only in Sicilian cuisine, but also in Italian gastronomy in general, arose. The future chef began working in the kitchens of restaurants at the age of 16, his last job in Italy was a restaurant on Lake Garda.

Giuseppe's achievement list includes work in Michelin restaurants with famous chefs: Claudio Ruta (La Fenice restaurant, 1 Michelin star), Pino Cuttaia (La Madia restaurant, 2 Michelin stars). In Moscow Davi headed the kitchen of the legendary Semifreddo for seven years — during his work the restaurant was included in the lists of the best restaurants of the world according to San Pellegrino and Le Soste guide.

Friendly family

The classic menu of BUTLER restaurant is represented by dishes that embody the passionate love of our chef Giuseppe Davi for his native Italy and respect for Russian traditions, seasoned with spicy notes of Sicilian cuisine — the place where our chef was born and raised.

Time-tested Italian gastronomic hits, seasonal offers from the chef, dishes for family dinners and for special occasions, gourmet desserts and equally masterpiece dishes cooked in the oven or on the grill according to the maestro's family recipes are widely represented here.

Every season Butler updates special offers with actual and fresh products. Pastas, pizzas and risottos are cooked with chanterelles, porcini mushrooms and truffles. When it is hot, several types of homemade gelato, which are also made according to the classic Italian recipe are served here.

Custom-made cakes for family celebrations and corporate events are also cooked in the restaurant.

The classic is always flawless. Come and see it by yourself!

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Snowball’s path was uncharted territory; yachting has long been a niche in the restaurant industry. “There’s some stigma that yacht chefs aren’t real chefs, so the crossover isn’t easy,” he tells Robb Report.

As with Snowball, money is the primary motivation, explains Mymuybueno founder Justine Murphy. The average head chef on a yacht has the potential to earn a tax-free monthly salary of between $8,000 to $13,000 per month. The premium for Michelin experience can see an extra $2,000 to $4,000 added to that. 

“These chefs largely want to come and earn the money that the luxury industry will provide them for a year or two and then return to land to work towards their own restaurant,” Murphy, who herself spent six years as a private chef on yachts, explains. 

Before they even step onboard, however, there’s an audience of yacht owners eagerly awaiting them.

“If you are going to have your own private chef, the preference is for someone with experience in Michelin establishments because of what they can bring to the table, such as modern trends or even the very dishes from the restaurant the owner loves,” Murphy says.

Lenz says if he’d known how easy it was to make such a salary on yachts with his experience, he would have made the switch a decade earlier. But it’s more than just money — and a two-months-on, two-months-off job rotation — that keeps him on the water.

“I get to travel and to see the world and cook with the best produce,” Lenz says. “Isn’t that the dream?” 

The photos from Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat and St. Barths interspersed with pretty plated dishes and daily banter with crew offer Lenz’s 180,000-plus followers on Instagram ( @billionaire_ch3f ) a glimpse into the yacht chef lifestyle. Lenz knows that social media accounts such as his inspire some of the most talented land-based chefs.

“People see that I’m shopping in local markets or cooking a fresh tuna that the crew reeled in,” he explains. “In a restaurant, that piece of tuna would already be five or six days old before we received it.”

While his job may look picture-perfect, Lenz says the swap from land to water required a total mindset shift. “You have to change how you cook,” he says. “You don’t have the manpower you need, nor the time, nor any of the pots and equipment you would use in a Michelin-starred restaurant.”

Murphy agrees that, for some chefs, the transition can be a shock to the system. “They are without the support system in a restaurant, where each chef is responsible for a different section. On a yacht you are doing it all on your own, or with one other if the vessel is over 60 meters [197 feet],” she explains. 

And not all of them are cut out for the industry, she adds.

“There are a lot of important attributes to have, especially humility,” says Murphy.  “I see it all too many times, chefs who come in and jump around and leave before they have even started, because it’s a whole lot harder than they imagined.”

It’s been four years since the business was founded and the duo is on the cusp of topping $5 million in revenue this year. “We’ve applied our restaurant work ethics and determination to the project and built it up with blood, sweat, and occasionally tears,” he says. “We are able to provide the products that guests on board are looking for, which in turn makes the galleys a happier place for the chefs to work—we love what we do.”

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Nouveau sur Canal+ : A Gentleman in Moscow... C'est quoi cette mini-série avec Ewan McGregor ?

Canal+ lance la mini-série "A Gentleman in Moscow", une fable qui se déroule dans la Russie bolchévique portée par Ewan McGregor

De quoi ça parle ?

Au lendemain de la révolution russe, le comte Alexandre Rostov découvre que son statut de privilégié le place du mauvais côté de l'histoire. Même s’il échappe à une exécution immédiate, un tribunal soviétique le condamne à vivre retranché dans une chambre dans les combles du luxueux hôtel Metropol et le menace de mort si jamais il en sortait. Tandis que les années passent et que le pays traverse les décennies parmi les plus tumultueuses de son histoire, les conditions de vie restreintes de Rostov l’ouvrent sur un vaste monde de découverte émotionnelle. Alors qu'il se construit une nouvelle vie entre les murs de l'hôtel, il découvre la véritable valeur de l'amitié, de la famille et de l'amour.

D’après le roman "Un Gentleman à Moscou", d’Amor Towles.

A Gentleman in Moscow, une série créée par Ben Vanstone avec Ewan McGregor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Paul Ready...

Le luxe comme prison

Il y a pire comme lieu pour être assigné à résidence que dans un hôtel opulent. Bien sûr, ce cadre luxueux devient une prison quand vous êtes relégué dans une chambre lugubre et froide sous les toits avec à peine un petit lit, très peu de chauffage et la menace d'être abattu à vue si vous osez franchir les portes dorées de l’hôtel.

Adapté du roman d' Amor Towles de 2016, qui s’est vendu à plus de quatre millions d'exemplaires, A Gentleman in Moscow est un drame historique chic se déroulant dans la Russie post-révolutionnaire, centré sur un aristocrate déchu, en décalage avec l'histoire qui s'écrit autour de lui.

Le Comte Rostov ( Ewan McGregor ) est un noble qui rentre chez lui en Russie après la Révolution bolchevique. Son espèce est en voie de disparition et il a de la chance de sauver sa tête lors d'un procès expéditif qui l'accuse d'être né riche.

Sauvé de la mort mais dépossédé de ses biens, de sa richesse et de ses titres, Rostov est condamné à l'assignation à résidence à l'hôtel Metropol, un établissement grandiose où il est censé vivre le reste de sa vie. Là, il est transféré de sa suite somptueuse à une chambre réservée autrefois aux serviteurs.

Mais avec la promesse du gîte et du couvert — et de sa vie — Rostov supporte bien ses circonstances réduites. Il continue de s'habiller pour les repas dans les salles de restaurant de l'hôtel, servi par le personnel avec qui il tisse des liens et engage des conversations spirituelles.

S'accrocher à l'humain

Il rencontre aussi Nina ( Alexa Goodall ), une fillette de neuf ans pleine d'esprit qui désire qu’on lui raconte des histoires de princesses dans un monde où elles sont tuées en pleine nuit. Et Anna Urbanova ( Mary Elizabeth Winstead ), une actrice dont les perspectives de carrière sont désormais incertaines dans le nouvel ordre social, devient sa compagne intermittente, lorsqu'elle passe à l'hôtel.

McGregor et Winstead, sont mari et femme dans la vie réelle — A Gentleman in Moscow est leur troisième collaboration à l'écran — et leur alchimie ludique et intense est l'un des points forts de la série. On a envie de voir ces deux personnages liés, deux âmes solitaires ensemble.

Rostov approfondit également sa relation avec Mishka ( Fehinti Balogun ), un révolutionnaire qu’il connaissait avant, et doit accepter comment leurs passés s'entremêlent dans le présent.

Il y a de grands bouleversements au-delà des murs du Metropol, qui infiltrent petit à petit ses frontières. Même un grand hôtel ne peut rester le même éternellement lorsque l'histoire avance, et Rostov non plus, malgré ses efforts.

Un cauchemar russe

Il tente de conserver sa civilité et ses manières, les derniers vestiges d'une vie qui n'existe plus dans un pays qui souhaiterait qu'il n'existe pas. Mais on ne peut contrôler tant de choses et cette façade imperturbable glisse de temps en temps, comme lorsque Rostov est confronté à la cruelle réalité que d'anciennes connaissances ont trop peur ou sont trop mortes pour assister à un service commémoratif qu'il organise.

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Boy, 16, decapitated by shark while diving by himself

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A teenager has been decapitated in a shark attack while he was solo spearfishing off the coast of Jamaica.

Jahmari Reid, 16, went missing on Monday and his mutilated body was recovered by divers the next morning near the famous Montego Bay.

The teen’s dad, Michael Reid, was on the beach when his son’s body was brought onshore, telling the Jamaica Observer: ‘I can’t believe that he went to sea by himself and that was the outcome. Sad to know. I feel so bad.’

According to local media, Jahmari’s head and left hand were bitten off by the shark.

Divers claimed to have seen a massive tiger shark, a species behind many fatal attacks, swimming near where Jahmari’s body was discovered.

Fisherman Christopher Reynolds was also on the beach when Jahmari’s body was brought ashore, and he said: ‘All of the fisherman went out there and, while they were diving to take him up, they saw the big shark.

‘They shot at him but they didn’t get him.’

It’s just the fourth time an unprovoked shark attack has left someone dead in Jamaica, according to the Shark Attack File.

Jahmari’s father has said his son was aware of the dangers of spearfishing and diving alone.

The Trelawny Police are investigating the death.

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