Yesterday’s tragic death at Clarke’s beach is the first fatal shark attack in Byron Bay for 21 years.
The last was in 1993, when 31-year-old John Ford was taken by a great white shark, while scuba diving off Julian Rocks.
He and his wife, Deborah, were honeymooning from Sydney at the time.
She reported seeing a 4 to 5 metre shark 3 metres below the surface before her husband failed to surface.
A local fisherman later caught the white pointer, and police recovered the victim’s remains.
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