A huge shark killed a swimmer off the coast: the investigation concluded that the deceased himself was to blame for this

A British man who was killed by a great white shark off the coast of Australia last year died in a 'provoked incident', researchers say. Insider.

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The incident happened in February last year.

Simon Nellist, a 35-year-old scuba instructor, was swimming at Buchan Point, near Little Bay, southeast of Sydney, when a 4,5m shark attacked him.

Nellist, who was wearing a black wetsuit and training for a charity swim, lived in suburban Sydney with his Australian fiancée, Jessie Ho.

The International Shark Attack Database (ISAF), a global database of all known shark attacks, now classifies Nellist's death as an "instigated incident," which refers to a situation in which a person inadvertently or intentionally initiates contact with a shark.

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Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Shark Research Program, said Nellist "in no way intended to provoke" the shark, but was swimming in an area where people were fishing.

“We found that most of the attacks reported to us are taking place where people are fishing. There is chum salmon or bait in the water. Fishing brings the bait closer to shore than it might otherwise be, and the sharks often follow it,” he said. .

He explained that these circumstances could "excite" the shark or cause "atypical behavior."

As a result, ISAF classified the incident as "provoked," Naylor said.

Video of the attack, filmed by a fisherman, shows the shark in a "frantic state".

“Someone just got eaten by a shark,” the man shouts in the video. “Great white, it’s a great white shark, oh no, this is crazy, the man is still there.”
The Australian shark incident database, unlike the ISAF, recorded Nellist's death as an "unprovoked incident".

Attack statistics

Fatal shark attacks are extremely rare. According to ISAF, 2022 unprovoked shark kills were confirmed worldwide in 57. Most of the attacks took place in the US, with Australia coming in second in terms of the number of attacks.
Experts say sharks often mistake swimmers in wetsuits for seals, which can provoke them to attack.

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While it is unusual for sharks to attack humans, Nellist's death came around the same time that concern about the shark was rising for fishermen in Australia.

In response to his death, authorities urged fishermen to be more careful about using bait and disposing of bloody material that could attract sharks to swimmers.

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