This is a story of abalone diving. Are you guys saying that you will be abalone diving this weekend?
I've never heard of a fatal attack on a Scuba diver by a white shark, although I've heard of attacks none that has ended in death.
I've goggled and used up all my resources and come up blank... I've heard of horror stories with some divers that got taken by tigers, it was brutal the story I read... Literally the diver that tried to assist saw his companion gettting eaten up alive...
MG
P.S
I looked a little harder and found this:
Shark kills scuba diver
A marine biologist has been killed by a shark while diving off Adelaide, in South Australia.
Jarrod Stehbens, 23, was one of two researchers from the University of Adelaide collecting cuttlefish eggs off Gleneig Beach. The crew of their cover boat managed to haul aboard the other diver, Justin Rowntree.
The divers were reported to be at a depth of about 5m in some 18m of water when the attack occurred. Rowntree reported that the shark brushed past him first. He initially thought it was one of several dolphins they had seen, but then watched as it attacked his companion.
Rowntree said Stehbens successfully rebuffed the shark on its first approach, but then it turned on him again and got hold of his leg. Rowntree last saw Stehbens being dragged downward, seemingly calm as he tried to free himself from the shark's grip.
Asked to describe the shark, Rowntree referred to a "big white mass". Speculation linked the attack almost certainly with a great white shark which, with the bronze whaler, is regarded locally as the only shark capable of taking a diver without trace. Searchers found only a BC and cylinder.
Fatalities involving non-fishing scuba divers are extremely rare; victims are more normally snorkellers, swimmers, surfers and, in particular, spearfishermen whose catches are thought to draw sharks in.
In the past nine months, Australia has suffered three other fatal shark attacks. In March, snorkeller Geoffrey Brazier, 26, was killed in the Abrolhos Islands, near Perth. Last December, surfer Nick Peterson, 18, was attacked off West Beach, near Adelaide; and, the same month, spearfisherman Mark Thompson, 38, died over the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, in Queensland.
