I Think They re Rattled. That s The Easy Way To Say It.
Local surfers come to terms with Tuncurry’s fatal white shark attack.
Scene of the tragedy on a happier day.
Sean Doherty
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Josh Kirkman has lived and surfed in Tuncurry most of his life, but he’s never experienced the town the way it’s been this week.
On Tuesday morning, May 18, a surfer was attacked and killed by what’s estimated to be a four and a half metre white shark, close to shore on Tuncurry Beach, just down from the break-wall.
Having grown up in neighbouring Forster, my phone lit up soon after. So did Josh’s. “That’s the thing that goes through your mind when you hear about a shark attack at 11am. on a Tuesday,” he says. “That it’s one of your mates. It has to be.”
The victim of a fatal shark attack on the NSW mid-north coast has been identified as father-of-two, Mark Sanguinetti.
Tributes flowed for the 59-year-old from Sydney s Northern Beaches today with friends, family and local residents laying flowers on Tuncurry Beach where he died.
His daughters wrote a letter to their dad, calling the ocean the first of his many loves.
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Mark Sangiuetti, from Bilgola Plateau on Sydney s northern beaches, was killed in a shark attack at Tuncurry Beach.(Supplied) We all knew him as a legend with a heart as big as the ocean which was his first of many loves, Bella, 18, and 21-year-old Jemima wrote.