Champion surfer eaten in brutal shark attack SW Australia

Champion surfer killed in brutal shark attack

Wed, 21 Sep 14:12:00 2011

 

 

A top surfer has been killed after a quick and brutal shark attack on the French-owned island of Reunion.

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Mathieu Schiller, 32, was dragged off his surfboard on Boucan Canot beach in the Indian Ocean by a man-eating tiger shark and quickly killed in an attack that lasted less than 30 seconds.
Schiller, who was a European team body boarding champion in 1995, was one of a large group surfing in the area when the attack happened.
Fellow surfers searched for the Frenchman's body but police later said it had been carried away by the waves.
"There were around 20 people in shallow water and about five surfers out deeper when it happened," a witness told a local news agency.

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