Teh One Who Knocks
02-28-2013, 12:06 PM
By HARRY HAYDON - The Sun
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FOUR Great White sharks tore apart a swimmer as cops blasted 20 shots into the school of killers.
The 46-year-old man - later named as award winning TV director Adam Strange - was swimming in New Zealand when he was attacked by a four-metre long beast.
Three other sharks quickly joined the frenzy before police shot at them multiple times, firing from a helicopter and a speedboat.
Rescue crews were quoted by local media as saying the sharks were “white pointers”, commonly known as a Great Whites.
Shocked witnesses at Muriwai Beach, west of Auckland, said that one aggressive shark refused to let go of the man’s body until police blasted it.
One dead shark was later dragged ashore.
Shark attacks are extremely rare in New Zealand, with 11 fatal attacks since records began in 1847.
The last confirmed shark fatality was in 1976 in the Bay of Plenty, south-east of Auckland.
Shaken fisherman Pio Mose said that he had seen a man swimming nearby.
He said “All of a sudden we saw the shark fin and next minute, boom, attack him then blood everywhere on the water."
“He came back up, his head was on the water... then we notice he was already dead.”
Police Inspector Shawn Rutene said in a statement that the swimmer was about 650ft offshore when the shark attacked.
He said police went out in inflatable lifesaving boats and shot at the shark, which they estimate was 12ft to 14ft long.
Rutene said: “It rolled over and disappeared."
Police recovered the body of the swimmer, whose name was not immediately released because his relatives had yet to be notified.
About 200 people had been on the beach at the time of the attack.
Police said Muriwai and other beaches nearby have been closed until further notice.
Clinton Duffy, a shark expert with the Department of Conservation, said New Zealand is a hotspot for Great White sharks, and other potentially lethal species also inhabit the waters.
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FOUR Great White sharks tore apart a swimmer as cops blasted 20 shots into the school of killers.
The 46-year-old man - later named as award winning TV director Adam Strange - was swimming in New Zealand when he was attacked by a four-metre long beast.
Three other sharks quickly joined the frenzy before police shot at them multiple times, firing from a helicopter and a speedboat.
Rescue crews were quoted by local media as saying the sharks were “white pointers”, commonly known as a Great Whites.
Shocked witnesses at Muriwai Beach, west of Auckland, said that one aggressive shark refused to let go of the man’s body until police blasted it.
One dead shark was later dragged ashore.
Shark attacks are extremely rare in New Zealand, with 11 fatal attacks since records began in 1847.
The last confirmed shark fatality was in 1976 in the Bay of Plenty, south-east of Auckland.
Shaken fisherman Pio Mose said that he had seen a man swimming nearby.
He said “All of a sudden we saw the shark fin and next minute, boom, attack him then blood everywhere on the water."
“He came back up, his head was on the water... then we notice he was already dead.”
Police Inspector Shawn Rutene said in a statement that the swimmer was about 650ft offshore when the shark attacked.
He said police went out in inflatable lifesaving boats and shot at the shark, which they estimate was 12ft to 14ft long.
Rutene said: “It rolled over and disappeared."
Police recovered the body of the swimmer, whose name was not immediately released because his relatives had yet to be notified.
About 200 people had been on the beach at the time of the attack.
Police said Muriwai and other beaches nearby have been closed until further notice.
Clinton Duffy, a shark expert with the Department of Conservation, said New Zealand is a hotspot for Great White sharks, and other potentially lethal species also inhabit the waters.