A shark lover who was devoted to warning people about the animals was mauled to death in the world's black spot for such attacks.
Adrien Dubosc, 30, died off the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean just two months after one of his best friends died in almost identical circumstances.
Dubosc was a member of Shark Watch Patrol, an organisation dedicated to cutting down on shark deaths on Reunion, which is plagued by bull and tiger sharks, the Daily Mail reports.
Despite this, he loved the fish, and regularly posted Facebook pictures of ones he had seen, together with biological details about them.
Just after 11am on Saturday morning Dubosc entered the sea at Pointe au Sal in Saint-Leu with his bodyboard, off a beach where watersports are officially banned.
A police spokesman said: "The young man was in the water with two friends, when a shark attacked him, biting his right thigh, and his groin area.
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