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Search suspended for 'gentle giant' taken by shark

Steven Payne''s family has paid tribute to the surfer after he was killed by a shark. (Western Australia Police Force/AAP PHOTOS)

The family of a surfer fatally mauled by a shark has remembered him as a "gentle giant", as authorities suspended the search for his remains.

Steven Payne, 37, was attacked at a remote beach about noon on Monday at Wharton Beach, east of Esperance in Western Australia.

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