Hawaii on June 24, 2024. Identified in Hollywood for just a few supporting roles, notably in “Pirates of the Caribbean”, surfer Tamayo Perry was killed Sunday throughout a shark assault on the American archipelago of Hawaii, in response to native authorities .
A determine on the island of Oahu, this 49-year-old skilled lifeguard was browsing on Malaekahana seashore when he was attacked by a shark at noon.
Emergency companies had been known as “for surfer fatally injured after shark assault”defined Shayne Enright, an area official, throughout a press convention.
His physique was “introduced again to the seashore” and he was pronounced useless on the sand, she defined.
“Tamayo was a legendary sailor”greeted the mayor of Honolulu, Rick Blangiardi, deploring a “tragic loss”.
This former skilled surfer made a reputation for himself on the flip of the 2000s as one of many specialists on Pipeline, some of the harmful waves on the planet and a real Mecca of sport, on the well-known “North Shore” of Oahu .
This notoriety notably allowed him to make an look within the surf movie “Blue Crush” (2002).
A foray into Hollywood which then allowed him to land different supporting roles, notably in “Charlie’s Angels: The Angels are Unleashed!” (2003), within the sequence “Hawaii 5-O” (2011) and within the fourth a part of the saga “Pirate of the Caribbean” (2011).
Shark assaults are a identified danger in Hawaii, however they’re hardly ever deadly: out of 81 “incidents” involving surfers, swimmers or divers recorded over the past ten years, solely 5 folks have died in response to a listing of authorities.
A major variety of shark bites worldwide are because of “misidentification,” in response to a research printed in 2021 within the journal of the Royal Society.
In different phrases, sharks attacking surfers or swimmers have such poor eyesight that they in all probability mistake them for his or her typical prey, like sea lions.