13-Year-Old's Death Is Latest Tragedy For Island Surrounded By Shark-Infested Waters | The Huffington Post. On the morning of April 12, before 13-year-old Elio Canestri was killed by a shark while surfing at a beach in his native Reunion Island, he left a note for his mother. “Don’t worry,” the young surfing champion wrote, according to NBC News.
“I’m going surfing. If there’s no security, I won’t surf.” Canestri was referring to shark “spotters,” or officials who are tasked with monitoring sharks from the shore while others are out in the water. The teen and his friends were reportedly surfing in an unmonitored area, where surfing was restricted, during the fatal attack. Canestri’s death was the 16th in a series of shark attacks — seven of which were fatal — that have plagued the French island since 2011. “Another shark attack in Reunion island this morning,” professional surfer and Reunion Island native Jeremy Flores wrote on his Instagram after Canestri’s death. Attacking The Shark Problem Officials are debating how to handle Reunion Island’s persistent shark problem.
Also on HuffPost: 25. Shark Attacks in a Surfers' Paradise. It seemed somehow significant, or maybe particularly unfair, but anyhow a cold, dumb fact: Mathieu Schiller had just paddled out. He hadn't had a chance to catch a single wave. In a case of bad timing within worse, the 32-year-old bodyboarder, a former French champion and the owner of a local surf school, had launched from the beach as one of the biggest sets of the day humped on the horizon.
There'd been a month of solid swell (which may have been significant as well), and though the wave heights were finally beginning to decline, it was still a big day at a surf break renowned for its powerful waves, and negotiating the set would take Schiller a little farther out to sea than the normal lineup. He duck-dived under the last wave, feeling the upward surge of power as the lip of the breaking wave threw out over him. Then he burst up out of the sea. Of the half dozen surfers in the water, Yves Delaplin had been closest to the accident. "Get out of here! " The mayor of St. Girl killed in Reunion shark attack. Shark kills surfer, 13, off Reunion in Indian Ocean. No Cookies | Daily Telegraph. To use this website, cookies must be enabled in your browser. To enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below.
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It is thought to be part of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that vanished mysteriously in March 2014 with 239 people aboard. The discovery prompted members of the French military and local beachcombers to scour the island’s shores for other flotsam that might have come from the plane. The frenzy on the shore, with volunteers still searching the beaches, is unlikely to change the frenzy over what to do about the sharks. Jeremy Flores, a professional surfer from Réunion, captured the mood in a post on Instagram. Photo.