"He immediately caught my leg and started gnawing on it," Bujon recalled. He came from the front like a pit bull," Bujon told French weekly La Nouvel Observateur, as reported by worldcrunch.
In August 2012, Bujon was at a surf spot off Saint-Leu on the west coast of Reunion Island when he was grabebd by a shark. Surfer Fabien Bujon was attacked but lived to tell the tale. They tried to intervene but were deterred by the sight of several fins. Witnesses saw him raise his hand as the attack happened about 200m offshore. Gazzo, advocating the removal of the sharks. “With each dive, sharks are seen in groups of two or three,” said Mr. He survived that but a second bite severed an artery, killing him.Īfter the attack, Guy Gazzo, a diver and member of the Regional Fisheries Committee, said there was a “clear overpopulation of sharks” on the west coast. Rassiga was surfing when he was bitten below the knee. In August 2012, Alexander Rassiga, 21, was killed by sharks at Trois-Bassins located on the west coast of Reunion Island. The horrific attack was witnessed by the victim's wife as she sunbathed on the beach. In May this year, 36-year-old French honeymooner Stephane Berhamel was killed by a shark while surfing not far from the island's popular beach of Brisants de Saint-Gilles. There have been 11 shark attacks recorded in Reunion since 2011, all involving surfers. Numerous sharks had been sighted in the area in recent weeks. Fatal shark attacks around the worldġ0 fatal shark attacks around the world since July 14, 2012Īuthorities confirmed that the beach was not monitored and swimming was prohibited but that a warning sign was often vandalised. The girl, who lived with her mother in France, was on vacation with her father, head of a yacht club in St. We didn't think a shark could come so close to the shore,'' said Ms Hoarau. "The conditions of this attack are very surprising. The other girl had just climbed on shore when the shark struck. The girl, who was named only as "Sarah" by French media, was swimming with another girl her age when the attack - just metres from a popular restaurant - happened. The teenager's body was sliced in two at the torso, and then "‘a part of her body was taken away by the shark", said Gina Hoarau, the head of public safety on the island. Local officials said the 15-year-old was attacked in the mid-afternoon while swimming just five metres from shore in the shallows of Saint-Paul bay on the western side of the island. A TEENAGE girl from France was killed in a shark attack while swimming off the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, the fifth person to be killed by sharks on the island since 2011.
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