Shark attack victim's remains found in waters off popular beach

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A antheral successful Israel has died aft helium was attacked by a shark, constabulary and the victim's woman said Wednesday, aft helium went swimming successful an country that draws dozens of the marine predator and besides funny beachgoers.

After a two-day search, constabulary said remains that had been recovered astatine the tract of the onslaught connected the country's Mediterranean seashore matched those of the man. Israeli media identified him arsenic Barak Tzach, a antheral successful his 40s and a begetter of four.

A shiver of endangered dusky and sandbar sharks has been swimming adjacent to the country for years, attracting onlookers who attack the sharks and drafting pleas from conservation groups for authorities to abstracted radical from the chaotic animal.

In caller days, the waters drew ample crowds who were seen swimming with the sharks. Some tugged connected their tails and threw them food. Authorities condemned the behaviour and person issued warnings not to attack the sharks. Swimming is banned astatine the beach, but bathers participate the h2o regardless.

Israeli media person broadcast respective videos successful caller days showing sharks swimming adjacent bathers, including children. One video appeared to amusement a swimmer being attacked.

In a Facebook post, a pistillate identified by Israeli media arsenic Tzach's wife, said helium had entered the waters with snorkeling cogwheel and an underwater camera. It was not his archetypal clip swimming successful this portion of the sea, she said.

"Barak entered the h2o to dive and papers the sharks, not to provender them oregon play with them," wrote Sarit Tzach. She said a fisherman who was with her hubby said helium did not interaction oregon provender them.

When the sharks approached excessively closely, she said, helium utilized the instrumentality holding his camera to "gently region them." The fisherman past called Tzach backmost to the enactment and arsenic helium dilatory returned helium was attacked, Sarit Tzach wrote.

It was conscionable the 3rd recorded shark attack successful Israel, according to Yigael Ben-Ari, caput of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority's marine rangers. One idiosyncratic was killed successful an onslaught successful the 1940s, helium said.

Police and rescue teams held a two-day hunt aft the onslaught and they said they were continuing to look for remains. Israeli authorities closed the formation and adjacent ones arsenic good aft the attack.

Doron Elmashali, commandant of the occurrence and rescue portion progressive successful the operation, said underwater cameras were utilized successful the search.

Israelis flocked successful ample numbers to the formation during a weeklong holiday, sharing the waters with a twelve oregon much sharks.

Dusky sharks tin turn to 13 feet agelong and measurement astir 750 pounds. Sandbar sharks are smaller, increasing to astir 8 feet and 220 pounds.

One video shared by Israeli media showed a shark swimming close up to bathers successful thigh-deep water.

"What a immense shark!" the antheral filming exclaims, arsenic the shark approaches him. "Whoa! He's coming toward us!"

"Don't move!" helium implores a lad lasting nearby, who replies: "I'm leaving."

The antheral past asks: "What, are you acrophobic of the sharks?"

Shark attacks — peculiarly deadly ones — dropped substantially last twelvemonth astir the world, according to a caller study by the International Shark Attack File,

Of 88 alleged shark-human interactions that researchers accidental they investigated past year, 71 bites were confirmed. The study segmented those incidents into unprovoked and provoked bites, of which determination were 47 and 24, respectively. Seven of the attacks were fatal, including 4 unprovoked attacks, according to the research.

Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.