A man in Israel has died after Attacked by a sharkThe victim’s police and wife said Wednesday, after he went to swim in an area that attracts the deans of the marine predator and also the curious to the Beachles.
After a two -day search, the police said they had found themselves at the site of the country’s Mediterranean coast coincided with those of man. The Israeli media identified him as Barak Tzach, a man in his 40s and father of four children.
A shiver of sharks in danger of extinction and sand bar has been swimming near the area for years, attracting viewers who approach sharks and take supplications from conservation groups so that the authorities separate people from the wild animal.
In recently, the waters attracted great crowds that were seen swimming with the sharks. Some threw from their tails and threw food. The authorities condemned the behavior and have issued warnings not to approach sharks. Swimming is prohibited on the beach, but bathers enter the water independently.
The Israeli media have transmitted several videos in the last days that Sharms show swimming near the bathers, including children. A video seemed to show a swimmer being attacked.
In a Facebook post, a woman identified by the Israeli media as Tzach’s wife, said she had entered the waters with snorkeling equipment and an underwater camera. It was not the first time he swam in this part of the sea, he said.
“Barak entered the water to dive and document the sharks, not feed them or play with them,” Sarit Tzach wrote. She said a fisherman who was with her husband said she didn’t touch them or fed them.
When the sharks approached too much, he said, he used the stick held by his camera to “gently distance them.” The fisherman called Tzach back to the shore and when he returned slowly he was attacked, Sarit Tzach wrote.
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It was only the third shark attack registered in Israel, according to Yigael Ben-Aarar, head of the Marine Rangers of the Nature Authority and Parks of Israel. A person was killed in an attack in the 1940s, he said.
The police and rescue teams conducted two days after the attack and said they continued looking for remains. The Israeli authorities closed the beach and also near the attack.
Doron Elmashali, commander of the Fire and Rescue Unit involved in the operation, said the underwater cameras were used in the search.
The Israelis went mass in large quantities until the duration of the beach of a week of vacation, sharing the waters with boxes or more sharks.
Dark sharks can grow up to 13 feet long and weigh around 750 pounds. The sandbourones are smaller, which grow to approximately 8 feet and 220 pounds.
A video shared by Israeli media showed a shark swimming to deep -waters.
“What a great shark!” The filming of man excludes, as the shark approaches him. “Whoa! It comes to us!”
“Don’t move!” He implies a child standing close, who replies: “I am leaving.”
The man then asks: “What are you afraid of sharks?”
Menahem Kahana/AFP through Getty Images 
Shark attacks – Mortal capacity – dropped substantial Last year worldwide, according to a recent report from the International Shark Attack Archive,
Of 88 alleged human interactions that researchers, according to the researchers, investigated last year, 71 snacks were confirmed. The report segmented these incidents in non -provoked and caused bites, or that there were 47 and 24, respectively. Seven of the attacks were fatal, including four unprovoked attacks, according to the investigation.
Agance France-Presse contributed to this report.