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Shark kill provokes baiting criticism
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0421/1224315007349.htmlA DEADLY shark attack off a Cape Town beach on Thursday has sparked criticism of baiting methods used by a US filmmaker studying great whites in the area, and prompted officials to cancel his research licence.
Promising international body boarder David Lilienfeld (20) was attacked and killed by the 5m-long apex predator off a beach near Kogel Bay, along the False Bay coast, where he was surfing with his younger brother, Gustav.
Witness Matt Marais told reporters he saw a huge dorsal fin of a shark surface near the two brothers and close in on them.
“The shark kept coming back, a second and I think a third time, before it got his leg. It was like someone pushed a button to turn the sea from a clear blue to dark red, that’s how quickly he was losing blood from the wound.”