This sort of goes by the rules of skiing and baseball games. There is a risk that you understand when you hop into a canoe. And when you hop into that canoe in Africa. You could have seen hippos in a local zoo. You could have seen hippos from a range rover. But this lady wanted to see hippos from a canoe in a third world country. The assumed risk she was taken was pretty darned high. And she went very far out of her way to take it.
I do feel for her. Many left unscathed from the very same adventure. But if there was no risk, it would not be called an adventure.
She was a pretty feisty lady to punch the hippo. That said canoes & hippos don’t mix in my world. She was involved in a risky adventure and the luck didn’t break her way. Too bad she can’t be transferred stateside.