Dateline 13-10-08
PART 1
Everything started with phone call from Croatian Alert Center about
alleged shark attack on diver around island of Vis, one of, from coast,
the most distant Croatian islands. Immediately I have contacted few
journalists but at that time they were not notified about it. After few
hours I have started to receive first informations, but unfortunately most
of it were contradictory: from victim suffering minor injuries to death
case, while length of shark varied from 2.5 m to 5 m. In that situation it
was not possible to conclude anything precise as in the Adriatic 28
different shark species were recorded so far, therefore possible shark
involved in this incident ranged from porbeagle, shortfin mako, great
white shark to even blue shark if minor injuries happened. Of course, even
some other species, not recorded in the Adriatic, but present in the
Mediterranean, could not be excluded.