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Pour tout ceux qui n’ont pas ecoute les news hier, check this out guys:
Attaque mortel d’un requin de 6 metres il y a deux jours (samedi) pres de Perth
« In the days leading up to the shark attack that claimed his life, Geoffrey Brazier was living his dream of skippering a luxury charter boat up the West Australian coast.
The 26-year-old had a life-long affinity with the ocean and had spent his adult life moulding his love of surfing, diving and sailing into a successful career.
But it came to a sudden and violent end on Saturday when a six-metre shark, believed to be a great white, fatally mauled Mr Brazier as he snorkelled near the Abrolhos Islands, off Geraldton, 500km north of Perth.
Geoffrey Brazier snr said his son had a deep respect for the ocean and all things in it.
« Geoff was brought up in boating and spent his life doing it, » Mr Brazier snr said at the Fremantle Sailing Club.
« He was on boats since before he could walk. He had a very natural and close affinity with the sea … (and) he died doing what he loved most. »
Mr Brazier snr said his son had achieved his life-long ambition of skippering a luxury craft such as the Matrix but was very modest, taking his success in his stride.
« He was excited at the fact of it. I think he signed on as first mate and took the job of skipper when the other guy pulled out, » he said.
The Matrix, a charter catamaran on its maiden voyage to the Kimberley region, was moored at Wreck Point in the south-east corner of Pelseart Island, which forms part of the Abrolhos chain, when the attack happened in full view of other horrified passengers and crew about 2pm (WST) Saturday.
Witnesses reported seeing the huge shark lunge at Mr Brazier and bite him in half as he snorkelled near the boat.
Rod Plug, who had been swimming near Mr Brazier moments before the attack, said he did not see his friend again.
« I swam back to the boat – my mask was leaking and then it all happened. Geoff was taken by the shark and that’s the last we saw of him, » he told reporters.
A search for the killer shark and Mr Brazier’s remains began almost immediately but was abandoned after hours of circling the region proved fruitless.
« The reason why it has been called off is that the currents up there are such that anything would have been taken out to sea, » police spokesman Sergeant Graham Clifford said.
« Also, the Abrolhos is a lot of islands and (has) a big volume of fish and many, many sharks, and once they spoke to the witnesses on board the boat – the savagery of the attack – we don’t think there’s anything left (of the body). »
WA Department of Fisheries shark research scientist Rory McAuley said he was aware of nothing that could have prompted the attack.
« There’s no one reason why sharks attack people, » he said.
« Great whites have been implicated in more attacks on humans than any other species. They are known as a particularly dangerous species. »
Since news of his son’s horrific death had become public, Mr Brazier snr said he had been inundated with condolence calls from people whose lives Geoffrey had touched.
He described his son as a « very, very likeable chap » with an easy-going manner that endeared him to people of all walks of life.
« As a family I would like to say our thoughts go out to the passengers and crew of the Matrix and we also wish to express our sincere thanks to WA police and all the people who have been associated with the search. »
Geoffrey Brazier was educated at Perth’s prestigious Aquinas College, where a memorial service is likely to be held in his honour next week.
He is survived by his father Geoffrey, mother Lorri, and siblings Natalie, Christine, Tony, Karl and Jacqui.
Saturday’s fatal shark attack was the third in WA in just over four years. »
[source: ©AAP 2005 via ninemsn website]
, le il y a 19 années et 3 mois.
