Fiancée shares touching photo as Sydney shark attack victim remembered

Simon Nellist, 35, was fatally mauled by a suspected 4.5-metre white pointer shark while training for a charity ocean swim, marking Sydney's first fatal shark attack since 1963.

On a February afternoon in Sydney, a city that had known nearly six decades of safety in its waters lost that quiet assurance in a single moment. Simon Nellist, a 35-year-old former RAF veteran and photographer training for a charity swim near Little Bay, was killed by a large white pointer shark — the first fatal attack in Sydney since 1963. In the days that followed, his fiancée Jessie Ho offered the world a photograph in place of words, a quiet testament to a shared life interrupted. The sea, which so many Sydneysiders treat as a place of routine and renewal, briefly became a reminder of ho

Fiancée shares touching photo as Sydney shark attack victim remembered

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