DATELINE: 3 May, 2002

SCALLOP DIVER KILLED BY SHARK
Paul Buckland, a 23-year-old scallop diver, was killed by a shark while being helped back aboard his boat by a friend in the fishing port of Smoky Bay, 310 miles north-west of Adelaide, Australia.
Buckland was diving from a boat anchored in the bay. He surfaced from the dive and uttered a cry for help. His friend tried to help him back into the boat, but a 6m long white pointer shark grabbed his body and pulled him back underwater.
Buckland was wearing an electronic shark-repellant device commonly used by commercial fisherman. A spokesman for the Adelaide-based company making the devices said that once it is out of the water, it can no longer transmit a signal that would repel a shark.
Fishermen in the Smoky Bay area are calling for the shark to be killed, but officials at the South Australia Fisheries Dept have ruled this out because the shark is a protected species.
The killing is the fifth fatal shark attack to take place in Australian waters since 1998.

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