On a Friday afternoon at Sorrento Beach in Perth, Greg O'Neill — a 63-year-old father on the cusp of becoming a grandfather — was fatally attacked by a great white shark while swimming with a friend just fifty feet from shore. His body was never recovered, yet the evidence left behind was unmistakable. In the rare and terrible moments when the natural world asserts its indifference to human life, entire communities are forced to reckon with the fragility of the familiar — the beach they walk past, the water they call their own.
Swimmer killed in rare shark attack off Perth beach
Greg O'Neill, 63, was fatally attacked and killed by a great white shark; his body was not recovered.