Loma, San Diego Swimming naġ2/9/94 James Robinson Harris Point, San Miguel Is.“They say it’s like a bullet.
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Baker Beach, San Francisco Swimming <15'Ħ/14/59 Robert Pamperin La Jolla, San Diego Free diving 30'ġ2/19/81 Lewis Boren Spanish Bay, Monterey Surfing <10'ĩ/15/84 Omar Conger Pigeon Point, San Mateo Free diving 15'ġ/26/89 Tamara McAllister off Malibu, Los Angeles Kayaking naĤ/16/94 Michelle VonEmster Pt. "It was tragic and ironic he would go this way."ġ2/7/52 Barry Wilson Pacific Grove, Monterey Swimming 20'Ĥ/28/57 Peter Savino Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo Swimming <10'ĥ/7/59 Albert Kogler Jr. "He loved the ocean so much," Franko said. "I don't know if he can ever be replaced."įry lived in the Auburn area not far from Sacramento, but his friends said he traveled most of the time on behalf of his fishing interests. "He will surely be remembered," Franko said. "He loved fishing and he loved the ocean. "He was a uniter," said Bob Franko, president of the Coastside Fishing Club, based in El Granda in San Mateo County. "Randy was really instrumental in organizing recreational anglers," said Sonke Mastrup, deputy director of the Wildlife and Inland Fisheries division of the state Department of Fish and Game. He brought together recreational fishers and commercial fishermen, who in the past had been bitter enemies. He was the western regional director for the Recreational Fishing Alliance, a group that organized fishing people and lobbied political bodies. It was his hobby, his passion and his career. Randall Fry was 50, and the ocean was his life. They were free diving, using wet suits, masks, fins and snorkels, but no air tanks.
They also kept an eye out for seals and sea lions, which are often prey for sharks. They dived off a 28-foot fishing boat and had someone watching for anything in the water, like sharks. They understood each other well and had taken precautions, Zimmerman said. They dived together 30 years, and they swam side by side. Zimmerman and Fry were old friends and old diving partners. "He said, 'I think a shark will get me sometime.' " It's common banter among abalone divers.
"Randy and I talked about it many times," Zimmerman said. Zimmerman said that Fry always had a hunch about a shark. Fry always wore a distinctive wet suit it had his name on it. Jim Martin, another diver from the nearby town of Caspar, identified the body by the wetsuit it was wearing. Though the Mendocino County coroner still has not made a formal identification, Zimmerman is sure it was Fry. The Coast Guard searched until dark Sunday, and on Monday morning they found a body in the ocean nearby. "A nibble, maybe, a nip, but never nothing like this. "I never heard of a fatality on this coast," said Zimmerman, who lives in Fort Bragg. But Avila Beach is more than 350 miles south of Fort Bragg. The last fatal attack happened last year near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County when a great white shark killed a college teacher out for a morning swim. There have been 106 shark attacks on humans in the last 50 or so years on the California coast, 10 of them fatal, according to the Department of Fish and Game. No one had ever seen a shark there before, and the Coast Guard said there had been no reports of shark attacks in that area. Perfect for prying abalone off the rocks. The sea was calm, and the weather was sunny and beautiful. It was near Kibesillah Rock on the Mendocino coast just north of Fort Bragg. "It was terrible," Zimmerman said Monday, a day after the attack. All this happened on Sunday afternoon, in water 15 feet to 20 feet deep, just 150 feet from the shore of a cove used by lumber schooners years ago, a place noted for abalone beds. It was over in an instant no one saw the shark again, and no one saw Fry again.
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