Father-of-two Paul Millachip was attacked by what appeared to be a great white shark while he was swimming near Fremantle, Western Australia, on Saturday.
Paul Millachip, 57, wasby what appeared to be a four-and-a-half-metre great white shark.
The search was called off on Sunday afternoon, local time, with searchers saying that only a pair of googles had been found and these had been swabbed for testing.In comments reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corp, Mr Millachip's wife, who asked not to be named, said he had been a"lovely man and a great father".
Thanking the agencies involved in the search, she said:"We've been through in quite a lot of detail what they've been doing and how the search has panned out, and they've been extremely thorough and extremely professional, and we're really, really grateful for that." She also thanked a number of teenagers who were in a dinghy nearby when her husband, a father of two, was attacked.
The teenagers had witnessed the attack, called emergency services, and urged other swimmers to get out of the water.
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