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A DIVER WAS killed by a shark today while hunting scallops off the coast of Australia as his daughter watched helplessly, shocking locals in an area not known for such attacks.
The deadly incident happened off Maria Island in the southern island state of Tasmania following sightings of a large great white shark in the vicinity over recent days.
The man, in his late 40s, was diving with his daughter when he failed to resurface.
“My understanding is the daughter returned to the boat and the father returned to get some more scallops,” Tasmania Police Inspector David Wiss told reporters. “He did not return to the surface.
His daughter became worried and went down and checked on her father, she saw a very large shark, she saw her father being attacked by the shark.
The woman scrambled back on board their dingy and set off a flare to get the attention of other boats, who came to her aid and helped haul her father back to the surface using the air hose he was attached to.
“But unfortunately he was fatally injured,” added Wiss.
Tasmanian Scallop Association president John Hammond said the area, off the state’s east coast, was not known for sharks.
“Absolute tragedy for the family. Bloody terrible,” he told national radio, adding that there were a number of other divers in the water at the time.
“(The diver was) in the shallow water there, it just struck out of the blue, and bang.”
According to Sydney Taronga Zoo’s Australian Shark Attack file, the last fatal shark attack in Tasmania was in 1993, when a woman was killed while scuba diving near a seal colony off the state’s north coast.
Michael Kent, mayor of nearby Glamorgan Spring Bay, said the grisly incident was “absolutely devastating”.
“The whole community down here will be deeply in shock.”
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