A shark research permit for a US-based documentary maker has been canceled with immediate effect after a deadly shark attack in Kogel Bay in Cape Town.
The director of Biodiversity Coastal Research, Allan Boyd, said he was shocked by the incident, describing it as a tremendous tragedy.
Boyd recently granted a research permit to US-based documentary maker Chris Fischer to film great white sharks in the Cape.
At the time it caused fears this could attract sharks to populated beaches. Fischer had been in the country for the last month capturing and filming sharks in their natural habitat for the National Geographic documentary "Shark Men".
The City of Cape Town closed the Kogel Bay beach, between Gordon's Bay and Rooi Els, after the body of the 30-year-old shark attack victim was recovered.
Sapa
