Search efforts continue for man killed by shark in South Australia

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Search efforts are continuing today for the body of a young man killed by a shark. Port Lincoln man Lance Appleby was surfing off South Australia's west coast when he was attacked on Thursday night.

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00:00Emergency services have resumed their second full day of searching at Granites Beach near

00:07Streaky Bay this morning.

00:0928-year-old Lance Appleby was surfing here on Thursday night when it's believed he was

00:15taken by a great white shark.

00:17A surfboard has been recovered so far in the search, but there's been no sign of the 28-year-old's

00:23body.

00:24Mr Appleby was a well-known figure in the Streaky Bay surfing community.

00:29Tributes have been pouring in from across the country, including from his sporting clubs

00:34interstate.

00:35One Streaky Bay resident and commercial fisherman, Jeff Schmucker, who knew Mr Appleby since

00:41he was a baby, says he was an experienced surfer and parts of the community are feeling

00:47anger over his death.

00:49Each attack that we've had over the last 10 or 15 years is slowly putting that fear in

00:56everybody and people withdrawing from the past time on the West Coast, although there

01:00seems to be more people surfing, but we've had more visitors, so I think the numbers

01:04are made up by new people coming and experiencing what we experienced as kids.

01:09Mr Schmucker says shark management along the West Coast needs to be revisited in the wake

01:14of the death, but he says culling is not the answer, instead suggesting monitoring and

01:20tagging needs to be investigated.

01:22Mr Appleby's death is the fourth fatal shark attack in South Australia in the past 20 months.

01:28Another surfer, Todd Jindal, was taken on this same beach in 2023.

01:34His body was never recovered.

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