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Abe Maddison

Hunt shark for closure, victim's friend urges

Witnesses reported seeing surfer Lance Appleby being attacked by a shark. (HANDOUT/SOUTH AUSTRALIA POLICE)

Authorities must act swiftly to recover the body of a missing surfer and issue a destruction order for the great white shark that attacked him, a friend of the man says.

A search for Lance Appleby, 28, of Port Lincoln continued on Friday after witnesses reported seeing him being attacked at Granites Beach, on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula, just after 7pm on Thursday.

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