Chilling last words of man dragged away by shark in Mediterranean before body found
The chilling last words of a man who was fatally attacked by a shark before officials found his body in the sea have been revealed.
Barak Tzach stopped at Olga Beach in Hadera, Israel for a swim. He chatted with a friend before entering the water with an underwater camera and snorkeling gear, and his pal warned him not to get into the sea that day.
The warning came due to the fact sharks had been circling the shallow waters off the coast of Hadera for days - and some irresponsible beachgoers had even been feeding the creatures, and pulling their tails, reports the Mirror.
Local authorities issued warnings condemning this behaviour, urging the public not to go near the sharks.
Swimming is technically banned at the beach because a shiver of sandbar and dusky sharks had been approaching the beach for years - but members of the public repeatedly ignored the rules, and swam with them anyway.
Shiver sharks weigh about 100 kilograms, and get to about 2.5 metres in size, but dusky sharks are even bigger, growing to four metre long, and weighing a whopping 350 kilograms.
The 40-year-old had swum with sharks before - his wife later revealed in a Facebook post - but he never fed or antagonised them, and on this occasion is said by witnesses not to have touched them.
His wife Sarit said: "When they started to get too close to him, he used the GoPro's stick to gently push them away.
"The fisherman called him back to shore, and Barak started swimming slowly toward him – and then he was attacked."
From the beach, witnesses heard him call out his terrifying last words: "I'm bitten, I'm bitten" - before the water around him is said to have turned red, and he was dragged away.
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Despite the father of four's desperate calls for help, the attack was fatal - and while his wife insisted that he had only got into the sea to "to dive and document the sharks, not to feed them or play with them," the terrifying incident shows why bathers are banned from entering the water.
Authorities conducted an extensive two-day search looking for the 40-year-old, with Deputy Fire Chief Doron Almashali saying in a statement: "After a day and a half of intensive effort, we have found what appears to be part of the missing person. Naturally, these findings must undergo thorough examinations by the Israel Police and the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.
"We will continue working to confirm that we have indeed found the missing individual. We conducted our search pattern based on careful analysis of underwater currents, and it was precisely in that area where the remains were discovered."
Shark attacks in Israel are relatively rare, with Barak Tzach the first person to be killed by one since 1940.
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