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Nick Peterson Eaten by Great White 12/04
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Near Adelaide, Australia
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Tourist-saw-shark-before-fatal-attack/2004/12/17/1102787276365.html
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December 17, 2004
It was Thursday afternoon at suburban West Beach in Adelaide at the start of the first hot spell of summer. A tourist from the Czech Republic, Lenka Mrzilkova, looked out to sea and saw a large black dorsal fin only 30 metres from shore. Thinking it must be a dolphin, she photographed the distinctively angled fin of the great white shark and left.
About 400 metres from shore Nick Peterson, 18, and his three best friends were messing around in a dinghy with a surfboard towed behind. One of them had been on the board but asked to be pulled back in.
Nick Peterson, a surfer and experienced water man, jumped off next and asked his friends to throw him the board. Within seconds a great white shark as long as the five-metre boat surfaced and grabbed Nick by the left arm. It dragged him along the length of the boat by the arm and back, playing with him before a second shark apparently joined the attack.
The boys, friends from Adelaide's Sacred Heart College, tried to beat the sharks off with oars but Nick, who left school a year ago and was working as a paver, died quickly in front of them.
About 3.15pm, Anna and Frank Criscitelli were preparing to put their boat to sea when the boys reached the shore and ran towards them yelling, "Don't go out, don't go out, sharks, sharks."
The boys were in shock. "Our friend has just been taken by a shark," they screamed.
Over the next few hours Nick's surfboard was washed up and some human remains were recovered. At first light more remains were found.
December 17, 2004
It was Thursday afternoon at suburban West Beach in Adelaide at the start of the first hot spell of summer. A tourist from the Czech Republic, Lenka Mrzilkova, looked out to sea and saw a large black dorsal fin only 30 metres from shore. Thinking it must be a dolphin, she photographed the distinctively angled fin of the great white shark and left.
About 400 metres from shore Nick Peterson, 18, and his three best friends were messing around in a dinghy with a surfboard towed behind. One of them had been on the board but asked to be pulled back in.
Nick Peterson, a surfer and experienced water man, jumped off next and asked his friends to throw him the board. Within seconds a great white shark as long as the five-metre boat surfaced and grabbed Nick by the left arm. It dragged him along the length of the boat by the arm and back, playing with him before a second shark apparently joined the attack.
The boys, friends from Adelaide's Sacred Heart College, tried to beat the sharks off with oars but Nick, who left school a year ago and was working as a paver, died quickly in front of them.
About 3.15pm, Anna and Frank Criscitelli were preparing to put their boat to sea when the boys reached the shore and ran towards them yelling, "Don't go out, don't go out, sharks, sharks."
The boys were in shock. "Our friend has just been taken by a shark," they screamed.
Over the next few hours Nick's surfboard was washed up and some human remains were recovered. At first light more remains were found.
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