On a Friday morning in September, Greg O'Neill, a 63-year-old father and soon-to-be grandfather, entered the waters of Sorrento Beach in Perth and did not return — taken by what authorities believe was a great white shark in full view of other swimmers. His death, the fifth fatal shark attack in Australia this year, has reopened one of the oldest tensions in conservation: the question of how a society weighs the life of a protected species against the lives of those who share its waters. In the aftermath, officials authorized a rare kill order, and a community was left to grieve both a man and
Australian swimmer killed in rare fatal shark attack at Perth beach
Greg O'Neill, 63, was killed in the shark attack while swimming with a friend at Sorrento Beach.