6/11/2000
Fatal shark attack shocks Cottesloe community
KERRY O'BRIEN: That Melbourne Cup preview later in the program.
Shark attacks have become part of the Australian mythology.
White Pointers in particular are usually associated with remote beaches in the cold waters of the Southern Ocean.
But today that myth was well and truly shattered with a shocking attack on two men at Perth's Cottesloe beach.
The men were taking their usual early morning dip, planning their routine after-swim coffee, when the 4 metre shark attacked.
One
man is dead, the other in hospital with injuries to his legs and feet,
and the close-knit community of Cottesloe is in shock.
Jenelle Provost reports.
JOHN BAILEY, WITNESS: The shark was literally circling in tight symmetrical circles around its victim.
He was turning like this, with his hands out, trying to stop the shark.
Then he went limp.
As soon as he went limp, the shark changed its orbit and headed off towards the shore.
KIM GAMBLE, CAFE OWNER: Someone shouted, "Shark attack!"
And I just sort of thought, "Someone's joking."
I
turned around and looked out to the water and then there's this huge
amount of blood in the water and then saw the shark just sort of rolling
with its tail and fin and pushing this person towards the north and
then it sort of seemed to let go.
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s208937.htm
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