Shark Attack at Fish Hoek, Cape Town - Surfer reports on the incident from Twitter

News has just come in that a shark attack has taken place on a swimmer at Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town. The news broke at 15:40 today when a surfer posted the incident on the popular micro blogging portal Twitter. The news soon spread on Twitter before popular News publishers across South African picked up the story and broke with it on their websites. Eye Witness News seemed to be the fastest to break with the story from a news brand.

As of the time of writing this authorities are currently searching for the remains of the victim. Tragically, according to the bulk of online reports, the victim was a foreigner who was attacked in waist deep water. He was at Fish Hoek beach enjoying the New year holiday with his family.

@skabenga, who according to his history of posts seems to be a keen Kalk Bay local, reported that the attack took place in front of his house just after half past 3 today. For the past few hours @skabenga has been posting updates to the incident. Below are the Twitter accounts of the incident  taken off @skabenga’s Twitter page:

Tue 12 Jan at 15:40: Holy shit, we just saw a GIGANTIC shark eat what looked like a person right in front of our house in fishhoek. Unbelievable.

Tue 12 Jan at 15:44: Emergency services just arrived. It must have been a person. The shark breached it's head out the water no remains http://yfrog.com/1dronnpj

Tue 12 Jan at 15:47: We are dumbstruck, that was so surreal. That shark was HUGE. Like dinosaur huge. #sharkattack #fishhoek

Tue 12 Jan at 16:06: Helicopters are out and looking for any trace of the remains. Shark headed off Clovelly way #fishoek #sharkattack

Tue 12 Jan at 16:15: Ironically the Cape Times issued a shark warning a few hours ago. http://bit.ly/8Qs2zW

Tue 12 Jan at 16:40: there was no thrashing or struggle visible so we assume the shark had already struck once and the victim was unconscious.

Tue 12 Jan at 16:42: @stii apparently whale watchers just found half a body .... lucky there arent many waves to miss out on by not surfing in FH :)

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