The lady had come back to the vessel while her dad kept on gathering scallops submerged, David Wiss, an assessor with the Tasmania police, told correspondents amid a question and answer session.
"His little girl got to be concerned and went down and wiretapped her dad when]she saw a huge shark, she saw her dad being assaulted by the shark," Wiss said.
The lady reemerged from an expected profundity of 39 feet and set off a flare to caution different boaters in the territory, who came to offer assistance.
"They pulled up the man utilizing the air hose that he was appended to," Wiss told correspondents, "yet lamentably he was lethally harmed."
The casualty's little girl was "profoundly damaged," by, and could just portray the shark as "expansive."
Witnesses reported sightings of a 15-foot extraordinary white shark in the territory on Friday, a Maria Island senior officer told The Examiner.
Sharks are not regular in those waters, said John Hammond, president of the Scallop Fishermen's Association of Tasmania, which directs scallop angling in the range. Different jumpers were additionally in the water at the season of the assault, he said.
"It is truly shallow, protected water," Hammond. "It used to be customary scallop ground... It is a flat out catastrophe."
Tasmanian congressperson Peter Whish-Wilson said that the occasion was an "unpleasant disaster," yet requested that general society stay cool.
"There have just been five deadly shark assaults in Tasmania since convict times," Whish-Wilson said. "After some time individuals will be calling for sharks to be killed. While it's lamentable news, we need to keep two or three things in context."
The Guardian
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