All that was left was a little red bathing cap

Great White Shark Kills Woman Off South African Coast




Ouch! cancel my vacation to South Africa this January!

November 15, 2004
Local 6 News

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- A great white shark estimated to be at least 18 feet long attacked and presumably killed an elderly South African woman Monday off a beach near Cape Town, officials said.

Tyna Webb, 77, who lived in the area, was swimming Monday off Sunny Cove in Fish Hoek when the massive shark circled her and then attacked, witnesses and officials said. About 15 people witnessed the attack.

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I think something fishy is going on...

Helmutt...

I think we're going to need a bigger car...

A diver was just bitten in half by a six-meter (20-foot) shark!

Diver killed by huge shark off Australian coast
"The man died instantly in the attack Saturday afternoon off the Abrolhos Islands about 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the Western Australia state capital, Perth

Police investigation chief Sgt. Shaun Miller said the species of shark was not yet known "


There is a killer shark out there...

...and here´s another thread for this story (the last story). About the diver cut in half...
Shark Tears Man In Half (from ATSNN)

"Monster shark" kills diver near Cape Town.

'Monster' shark spotted in False Bay waters

June 06 2005

The shark believed to have cut short the life of Durbanville medical student Henri Murray on Saturday, was spotted in False Bay on Sunday, dragging a fishing buoy.

Murray, 22, had been spear-fishing 150 metres offshore of Miller's Point for about an hour with Van Niekerk, 23, when, at 3.45pm, a Great White shark tried to get at him from below. He shouted to Van Niekerk, 10m away, to swim to shore, but his friend instead came to help him.

Murray managed to evade the Great White twice, but on its third attempt, the shark took him, breached and pulled him under. Van Niekerk, a few metres away, fired his speargun at the shark in the hope it would leave Murray, but to no avail.

Grant Munro, who saw the incident from a bungalow in the caravan park, said: "The shark was a massive thing, probably five metres long. It lifted him out of the water, and disappeared within seconds."

The attack on Murray was the second in the Western Cape in three months.

There have been more than 70 attacks, eight of them fatal, off the Western Cape since 1990.


A helicopter and speed boat scan the waters at Miller's Point, near Cape Town, where a student was killed by a great white shark on Saturday. Photo: Cape Times

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Friend tries to rescue shark-attack victim (from June 05 2005)

Photo: AP

Great White attacks 17-year-old surfer in New Jersey. The last shark attack here happened 30 years ago.

Reuters: Great White shark attacks New Jersey surfer

A 17-year-old surfer in New Jersey lost a chunk of leg flesh in what is likely the state's first attack by a Great White shark in 30 years, officials said on Wednesday.

New Jersey resident Ryan Horton was about 25 feet (7.5 metres) off the beach at Surf City, Long Beach Island early on Sunday afternoon when he felt a sharp pain in his ankle but didn't see what caused it. After paddling back to shore, he was taken to a hospital

Bob Schoelkopf, director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, New Jersey said photos of the wound confirmed it could only have been made by a Great White.