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British man named as victim of fatal Australia shark attack (The Guardian)

Simon Nellist, 35, was reportedly training for charity swim when he was killed off Sydney.

Chris Pepin-Neff, a University of Sydney academic who focuses on policy responses to shark attacks, backed the authorities’ decision to close nearby beaches. The news hit us like a truck, because he really is one of the people that makes this Earth better.” It looked like a car just landed in the water.

Sydney shark attack: Swimmer killed by great white identified as ... (The Independent)

Victim, 35, was diving instructor who 'loved the water' and had been due to get married.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “We are supporting the family of a British man and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.” A spokesperson told The Independent: “Our consular staff are in touch with the New South Wales Police regarding a shark attack in Sydney. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) confirmed it was in touch with Australian police and the family of a British man involved in the incident. Mr Nellist is said to have been due to compete in a charity swim this weekend, but the event has been cancelled out of respect. It is believed Mr Nellist was a British expatriate living in the Wolli Creek area of Sydney, and had been due to get married.

Diver killed in shark attack 'would not want creature to die' (Kent Online)

The Kent aunt of British diver Simon Nellist, killed in a shark attack, says he would not want the animal hunted and destroyed.

When I heard of his move to Australia and what he was doing, it came as no surprise." "But he wouldn't want the animal to be destroyed. Della Ross, a friend of Mr Nellist, told broadcaster 7News: “Everything that is connected to Simon, to me is connected to the ocean. It was hugely unlucky. In Sydney the search is continuing for the white shark believed to be responsible, which left Mr Nellis with what medics described as “catastrophic injuries”. The aunt of a British diver killed in a shark attack in Australia says he loved the water and wildlife so much he would not want the animal to be destroyed.

Simon Nellist killed in shark attack in Australia (Cornwall Live)

A swimmer has died after being attacked by a great white shark in Australia. Simon Nellist, 35, was swimming at Buchan Point, near Sydney, on Wednesday ...

Choose what you love here "F*** man, I heard a scream and the shark was just chomping on his body and the body was in half here just off the rocks. Oh no! Oh man! Witnesses who watched on in horror claimed they had seen the shark "swallow parts of his body" and yelled across the beach "someone has just been eaten". The Mirror reported that Simon had a fiancee back in the UK, and that he was due to be married “soon”.

Sydney shark victim named after first fatal attack in 60 years (Aljazeera.com)

Beaches reopen after death of Simon Nellist in Little Bay beach, in first fatal shark attack off Sydney since 1963.

Police had not yet formally identified the victim. It was the first fatal shark attack in Sydney since 1963, data showed. A 35-year-old British diving instructor has been identified as the person killed in a shark attack at a Sydney beach, Australian media reported, as officials reopened beaches after the first fatal attack off the city in nearly 60 years.

Are shark attacks on the rise? (The Week UK)

A British expat has become the victim of the first fatal shark attack in Sydney since 1963, fuelling fears of an increase in similar incidents in waters ...

In 2019, researchers at Sydney’s Macquarie University identified a slight increase in the risk of shark attacks following heavy rainfall. The sharks become a protected species there in 1994, when the use of gill nets (a commercial fishing method that unintentionally entangled large sea creatures such as sharks, sea lions and dolphins) was also banned. Shark attacks increased globally in 2021 “following three consecutive years of decline”, the Associated Press reported. According to The New York Times, Massachusetts recorded just three injury-causing shark attacks in the whole of the 20th century. Experts noted that 2020 marked a record low, in part owing to the closure of beaches during the Covid-19 pandemic. But the fishing spot where Nellist was killed is a deep-water location, so “it would not have been protected using shark nets even if they had been deployed in the area”, said the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).