02-18-2011, 09:26 AM
HeraldSun.Aus.
THE diver taken by two great white sharks off the coast of South Australia last night had survived a brush with a great white only last August.
Police today resumed the search for the experienced abalone diver - named by AdelaideNow as Peter Clarkson - after he was attacked while surfacing near about 25km west of Coffin Bay near the bottom of Eyre Peninsula.
Officers believe two great whites dragged Mr Clarkson, 50, under and took his body out to sea.
The skipper of the aluminium boat from which Mr Clarkson was working saw the attack and told ambulance officers: "I saw the beast come up and take him. There's no way he could have survived."
Mr Clarkson was used to encounters with sharks and in a testimonial promoting the use of SharkShield - a shark deterrent system - he told of his brush with a great white last August.
"I was making a slow ascent when I realised that I was no longer alone. Ten metres away, swimming vertically at the same rate as myself, was a great white shark," he wrote on website Swellnet.com.au
"It was a scenario I had rehearsed in my mind a thousand times during the 27 years I have been diving, but this was the first shark of this species that I had encountered underwater."
Mr Clarkson, who is believed to live outside South Australia, said the shark was four meters long.
It is not yet known if he was using the SharkShield system when he was attacked yesterday.
NOT AN IMPRESSIVE TESTIMONIAL.
THE diver taken by two great white sharks off the coast of South Australia last night had survived a brush with a great white only last August.
Police today resumed the search for the experienced abalone diver - named by AdelaideNow as Peter Clarkson - after he was attacked while surfacing near about 25km west of Coffin Bay near the bottom of Eyre Peninsula.
Officers believe two great whites dragged Mr Clarkson, 50, under and took his body out to sea.
The skipper of the aluminium boat from which Mr Clarkson was working saw the attack and told ambulance officers: "I saw the beast come up and take him. There's no way he could have survived."
Mr Clarkson was used to encounters with sharks and in a testimonial promoting the use of SharkShield - a shark deterrent system - he told of his brush with a great white last August.
"I was making a slow ascent when I realised that I was no longer alone. Ten metres away, swimming vertically at the same rate as myself, was a great white shark," he wrote on website Swellnet.com.au
"It was a scenario I had rehearsed in my mind a thousand times during the 27 years I have been diving, but this was the first shark of this species that I had encountered underwater."
Mr Clarkson, who is believed to live outside South Australia, said the shark was four meters long.
It is not yet known if he was using the SharkShield system when he was attacked yesterday.
NOT AN IMPRESSIVE TESTIMONIAL.