A 38-year-old Australian man died on December 9 2004 after being attacked by a shark while spear fishing in the sea. The man was fishing alone at Opal Reef about 60 metres from his group's boat when friends heard him screaming. They turned the boat over to pick him up and noticed there was a pool of blood around him. The man had xtensive wounds to his left leg including a severed artery, and could not be saved.