According to a news feature on the US website Worldwaters.com an air and sea search was under way after a large shark killed one man and injured another at a popular beach in Western Australia.
Perth’s popular Cottesloe Beach was closed as helicopters and five boats searched for the shark, believed to be a Great White.
Seven members of a swimming club at Cottesloe were in the water when the shark struck, the Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday.
The shark swam off with the leg of the dead man – a Perth businessman – in its jaws. His body was brought ashore on a small boat, but attempts to revive him, at the scene, failed.
A second man, who is believed to have tried to pull his friend away from the shark, was taken to hospital with cuts to his lower leg. He was in shock but not seriously hurt.
The attack was watched by patrons at fashionable Cottesloe’s Blue Duck cafe, overlooking the beach.
Distressed cafe owner Kim Gamble, who knew the dead man, said the first thing he saw was blood spreading in the water.
“From the balcony I could see this huge shark,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald. “There was a whole sea of blood and it was pulling the person.”
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