Then, Tzach’s wife disclosed that he had made a valiant effort to stop the shark from attacking, but it had been ineffective.
“When they started getting too close to him, he used the stick of the GoPro camera to gently push them away,” said Sarit.
The father who ‘liked the sea and environment’ has been remembered by the family, who have asked people to’refrain from spreading incorrect or unsubstantiated information’ regarding his passing.
‘I’m bitten, I’m bitten,’ the swimmer cried out, according to witnesses, before he was pulled beneath the waves.
According to accounts, it is the fourth shark attack in Israel’s history.
The warm water and fish that are transported there by a local stream are known to draw sandbar and dusky sharks to the region around Olga Beach.
