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Abe Maddison

Halt surfing amid shark boom, victim's friend says

Great white shark numbers are "exploding", posing a risk to surfers in SA, a local fisherman says. (Regi Varghese/AAP PHOTOS)

The population of great white sharks is "exploding" and surfers must abandon the west coast of South Australia as a destination, a friend of a shark attack victim says.

A search has continued for Lance Appleby, 28, of Port Lincoln, after witnesses saw him attacked at Granites Beach, on SA's Eyre Peninsula, just after 7pm on Thursday.

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