Sarah Danser, a fan favorite on the reality TV show Naked and Afraid, has died in a car accident in Hawaii, People reported. Danser, 34, was a Scuba diver, boat captain, and self-proclaimed “pirate” who had lived in Hawaii for the past 12 years. She was rushed to the hospital after a speeding driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the parked car she was sitting in, and later died of her injuries. “Magical is the way to describe her,” her brother Jake Danser told a local news station. “Sarah had this positive energy about her that just really filled the environment that she was in.” In Naked and Afraid, two strangers are left in the wilderness without clothes, food, water, or shelter, and have to survive for 21 days. They’re allowed to bring one item they think will help them. In 2017, Danser won over viewers—and her hostile Navy SEAL partner—when she used her diving goggles to catch lobsters on the sea floor and figured out how to focus the mask’s lens to start a fire. She was brought back for the spin-off show Naked and Afraid XL, which extends the challenge to 40 days. Her XL teammate described her as “one of the most adventurous souls I’ve ever met.” Her colleagues at Island Divers Hawaii, where she worked, wrote on Instagram, “Heavy hearts as we say goodbye to a good friend and great captain… You will be greatly missed.”
