September 9, 2004

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  Diver's remains found

  
  

  Wednesday, September 8, 2004

  
  

  
  

  By MIKE GENIELLA
  THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

  
  

  A beachcomber strolling on a Mendocino County beach found a human head three weeks after a fatal shark attack that killed sports fishing advocate Randall Fry.

  
  

   Mendocino County authorities on Tuesday said the head belonged to Fry. The discovery was made last Friday on Ten Mile Beach north of Fort Bragg.

  
  

  Fry, a nationally known sports fishing advocate, was killed when he was attacked by a great white shark while abalone diving with a longtime friend in shallow water north of Ten Mile Beach. Fry, 50, was the 11th person to have been killed in shark attacks on the West Coast since 1952.

  
  

  Wearing a wetsuit, he was diving head first in about 15 feet of water when the shark swiftly moved in and attacked. The shark apparently ripped Fry's head and neck from his body, a move sharks usually reserve for marine mammals.

  
  

   

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