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  • Shark victim's family warned - 7 year Old NZ Girl Killed by Great White Shark

    06/26/2005 11:08:43 AM PDT · by Mongeaux · 113 replies · 3,401+ views
    New Zealand Herald ^ | 6/25/05 | Angela Gregory
    A teacher in Vanuatu says he twice warned the family of the New Zealand girl killed by a shark not to get into the water. Lapen Tilison told the Weekend Herald from Atchin Island that he always warned visiting yachties to stay out of the water where 7-year-old Alysha Webster of Coromandel Peninsula was fatally bitten. Mr Tilison had paddled out in a canoe to Alysha's parents' yacht just after it pulled into the attractive white, sandy bay where he lived, shortly before lunchtime on Wednesday. "They had just dropped the anchor and jumped in for a swim," he said....