Hunt is on to find the double killer
A TOP shark expert was flying in to the Seychelles last night to help make its beaches safe after the latest tragedy.
South African Jeremy Cliff warned authorities to close the beaches because they have “a serious problem” after this week’s attack following a similar one two weeks ago on a 36-year-old Frenchman.
He will try to work out which species of shark is to blame by studying British honeymooner Ian Redmond’s wounds. He believes the likeliest culprit is a rogue shark, either a “most aggressive” bull shark, above, which can grow to 23ft, or a tiger shark, which grows to 13ft.
Cliff, head of research at the KwaZulu Natal Sharks Board, wants to check whether a fishing technique using buoys close to the shore may have drawn the man-eater in to shallower waters.
The last fatal shark attack on the Seychelles was by a tiger shark in 1963.