Surfer dies after shark attack
Updated
A 31-year-old surfer has died after being attacked by a shark at a beach near Gracetown, south of Perth, this morning.
Police
say the man from Busselton, 50 kilometres north of Gracetown, was
surfing south of South Point when he was attacked about 8:15am WSDT.Local residents have told how they tried to resuscitate the man who had suffered horrific injuries.
Eddie Kilgallon was among a group of local residents who went to the man's aid and tried to revive him.
"We just kept on encouraging him," he said.
"We noticed that he had a wedding ring on, constantly reminding him of the people that do love him and we tried to give him their love."
Mr Kilgallon says the man's injuries were horrific.
"[The] back half of his leg was totally chomped. It looked like one bite. It looked like a big shark bite," he said.
It is understood the man was a father and worked in Western Australia's Goldfields.
Rob Alder says he was watching the surfer from his house and had been deciding whether to go for a surf himself when he saw the man lose his board and not come back up again.
Mr Alder says he rushed down to the beach with his friends and alerted a rescue crew.
He says they found the surfer washed up on rocks near South Point, lying unconscious with a huge gash to his leg.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-08-17/surfer-dies-after-shark-attack/947604
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