On August 19th, 1967 Robert Bartle age 23 was attack and killed. He was spear fishing out at Jurien Bay when he dove to pick up a float line when a white shark apparently “bit him in two.”
H. Edwards, pp.35-42; H.D. Baldridge, p.28; A. Sharpe, pp.132-133; A. MacCormick, p.86; J. West, ASAF