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July 26, 2015

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Diver Eaten Alive by Shark as Helpless Daughter Watches

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Diver Eaten Alive by Shark as Helpless Daughter Watches
Sunday July 26th, 2015 at 3:53 PM

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Sydney (AFP) — A diver was killed by a shark Saturday while hunting scallops off the coast of Australia as his daughter watched helplessly, shocking locals in an area not known for such attacks.

The attack happened off Maria Island in the southern island state of Tasmania following sightings of a large great white shark in the vicinity over recent days.

The man, in his late 40s, was diving with his adult daughter when he failed to resurface.

“My understanding is the daughter returned to the boat and the father returned to get some more scallops,” Tasmania Police Inspector David Wiss told reporters. “He did not return to the surface.

“His daughter became worried and went down and checked on her father, she saw a very large shark, she saw her father being attacked by the shark.”

The woman, who is in her 20s, according to the Australian Associated Press, scrambled back on board their dingy and set off a flare to attract attention.

Other boats came to her aid and helped haul her father back to the surface using the air hose he was attached to.

“But unfortunately he was fatally injured,” added Wiss.

Tasmanian Scallop Association president John Hammond said the area, off the state’s east coast, was not known for sharks.

“Absolute tragedy for the family. Bloody terrible,” he told national radio, adding that there were a number of other divers in the water at the time.

The diver was in the shallow water and “it just struck out of the blue, and bang.”

According to Sydney Taronga Zoo’s Australian Shark Attack file, the last fatal shark attack in Tasmania was in 1993, when a woman was killed while scuba diving near a seal colony off the state’s north coast.

Michael Kent, mayor of nearby Glamorgan Spring Bay, said Saturday’s incident was “absolutely devastating”.

“I feel for the family,” he told The Examiner newspaper in Tasmania, adding that a 4.5 metre (15 foot) shark had been spotted in the area a number of times over the past week.

“It’s a recreational area. The scallop season has been very good to professional and recreational fisherman and then we’ve got a disaster like this.

“The whole community down here will be deeply in shock.”

Diver Danny Smith told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation he and a friend had a close call in the same area on Friday.

He said he saw a great white while he was in the water but managed to get back on his boat, where he and other crew frantically pulled the friend aboard.

“The (shark) came to the surface to see where I’d gone I presumed and she sort of took a swipe at him (his friend),” he said.

“We saw fins and arms and legs going everywhere, we were initially thinking that we were going to pull in half a body.

“We got him on the boat and she came right to the back of the boat and then just descended back to the bottom.”

Sharks are a regular feature in Australian waters, and swimmers and surfers have had their share of encounters this year.

Earlier this month, a bodyboarder was left fighting for his life after an attack on the country’s east coast, close to where a Japanese surfer was killed in February.

Experts say attacks are increasing as water sports become more popular, but fatalities remain rare.

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Palestinian Youths Clash With Israeli Police at Al Aqsa Mosqueby ISABEL KERSHNER
Sunday July 26th, 2015 at 3:47 PM

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Clashes broke out at the Jerusalem holy site as Palestinians threw stones and sprayed an unidentified liquid at the police, who responded with stun grenades and tear gas.

The Guardian view on car computer hacking: act now | Editorialby Editorial
Sunday July 26th, 2015 at 3:45 PM

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Car computer hackers have exposed how fragile network security is on many of the devices we rely on. We must stop the internet of things turning from good to harm

Fiat Chrysler’s recall of more than 1.4m of its Jeeps so they can be fitted with a software patch to make them safe from having the controls taken over remotely, draws attention to an unnerving fact: any modern car is a network of anything up to 70 powerful computers that happen to be mounted on wheels and armoured in a tonne or more of steel. Every new car sold in the past few years is running about twice as much code as the whole of Facebook.

Last week’s recall is the first time a car manufacturer has been forced to acknowledge that modern cars are at risk from remote hacking while they are in motion. It will not be the last. Panic is not going to help anyone here, but this does mark the emergence of a potentially very serious problem.

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