The family of shark attack victim Adam Strange have waded into the sea during an emotional ceremony held this morning to remove the tapu from Muriwai beach. Strange died yesterday after being repeatedly dragged underwater by a massive shark, more than four metres in length, in full view of shocked fishermen and just a short distance from the popular west Auckland beach, which was jammed with school children at the time. Fishermen called desperately to Strange, a documentary maker and regular swimmer at the beach north of Auckland, to swim to a nearby rock, but they could only watch helplessly as the shark, believed to be a great white, attacked him. Witnesses said up to four other sharks...
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