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Daily Mirror
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Lucy Skoulding

Shark attack victim's tragic post about ocean before being mauled to death

A man who was mauled by a Great White Shark in Sydney yesterday wrote a Facebook protesting against shark nets months before his tragic death.

Brit diver Simon Nellist originally from Penzance in Cornwall was close to marrying the love of his life and had built a life for himself in Australia after starting his travels there six years ago.

Yesterday when the 35-year-old was practising for his charity swim in Buchan Point near Little Bay, the former RAF worker was attacked by a four-metre-long shark and mauled to death.

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