SYDNEY, Australia (22 Apr 2002) -- Police are checking unsolved murder cases and missing persons files following the discovery of human remains in a Tiger shark caught off Australia's south-east coast. Four members of a game fishing club found the remains including a skull, arm and pelvis after catching the three-meter Tiger shark and opening its stomach. "You don't expect to get a human body. We've talked about it - you know, what if - but you don't really expect it," said sport fisher Robert Van Lawick. To estimate where the shark ate the human body, police are consulting with various experts in shark digestion, tides and currents. An autopsy on the remains may help to determine if the victim was dead or alive when eaten by the shark. | | Tiger shark "We've got to look at DNA, dental records, perhaps facial reconstruction. We don't know how long it's been in the water and we don't know how long it's been in the shark," Lake Macquarie police Detective Sergeant Murray Lundberg said. "We're going to have to search unsolved homicides." © CDNN - CYBER DIVER NEWS NETWORKSCUBA FORUMDISCUSS THIS TOPIC - Dive in and have your say at Scuba Forum |
