Famous Last Words: “Every surfer, fisherman and diver has far more chance of being killed by bees, drunk drivers, teenage car thieves and lightning.”

December 28, 2008

These words were recently posted on the Western Angler website by a guy now known in the media as Brian Guest. Mr. Guest is currently the subject of a large search taking place in the ocean waters off the coast of Australia where it is feared that he was recently eaten by a Great White shark. The same shark is also being blamed for harassing a couple of kayakers in the area just off of Sydney’s Long Reef.

Mr. Guest was snorkeling with his son when the incident occured. Here’s more information from Australia’s The Age:

Mr Guest, 51, and his son, Daniel, 24, were diving for crabs off their local beach near Rockingham, 30 kilometres south of Perth, when the former suddenly disappeared about 7am.

Daniel had heard his father cry out and had seen the shark and a “heap of blood” in the water.

“Something very traumatic and pretty violent has happened there and we are treating it as a probable shark attack,” acting police inspector Mark Valentine said.

Brian Guest had been a big advocate of protecting sharks from hunting. The quote used in the title of this post was his thoughts on the idea of being attacked by a shark while in the ocean. Some things should just be left unsaid…

To read the complete story, please make the jump over to Australia’s The Age.

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