A 35-year-old British diving instructor was the man who died after being attacked by a white shark in Sydney. in the first deadly attack on the city’s waters since the 1960s.
Simon Nellist, 35, was attacked by a 13-meter-long predator at Buchan Point near Little Bay, about 500 meters from the beach yesterday afternoon. His body and the pieces of a uniform were found in the water an hour later.
A 35-year-old British man, Simon Nellist has been named as the victim of Sydney’s first fatal shark attack in nearly 60 years.
Australian authorities are still searching for the great white shark, with swimmers banned from the water & most city beaches shut after the attack. pic.twitter.com/ciPewvdFAN
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Overwhelmed, his friends revealed today that experienced swimmerwho lived in the Sydney suburb of Wolli Creek and had a family in the UK, liked being in the water while he was going to marry his partner Jenny Ho.
“Everything connected with Simon is connected with the ocean. The news hit us like a truck. “He liked the water, he liked diving,” they told 7News.
Mr. Nellist swam in the area daily and was aware of the potential dangers of swimming in the ocean after posting on Facebook just six months ago.
Witnesses watched the shark “attack vertically” and land “like a car” in the water, before pulling its body into the ocean. The shark was about twice the size of the Nellist.
In fact, the point of the attack turned red with the man’s blood, causing panic among the bathers.
According to the Daily Mail, dozens of swimmers and fishermen were watching the incident with horror.
Authorities have set up special nets to catch the shark in order to drive it out of the area and not kill it.
Emergency services were called at about 4:35 p.m. yesterday, before police revealed at 6pm that human remains had been found in the water. They then performed DNA tests on the remains to formally identify Mr Nellist.
Animal welfare advocate claimed that the shark confused its victim for a helpless seal, adding that the attack was extremely rare.
Lawrence Chlebeck, of the US-based Humane Society International, said: “It is very unusual to see a shark attacking a human like that. Normally a bite is not fatal. They usually bite something to understand what it is. Once they understand that it is a person and not a normal prey, they leave. “This is a very unique, and unfortunately tragic, situation.”
Daily Mail
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