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A diver was decapitated by a great white shark in front of horrified fisherman off the coast of Mexico in the first fatal shark attack of the year.
Manuel Lopez was scuba diving for molluscs near San Jose Beach in Tobari Bay on the western coast of Mexico when the 19ft-long shark attacked him on January 5.
Lopez, who was in his 50s, had his head torn off by the shark in the horrific attack.
'He was diving when the animal attacked him, ripping off his head and biting both shoulders,' fisherman Jose Bernal, who witnessed the attack, told Tracking Sharks.
Manuel Lopez was scuba diving for molluscs near San Jose Beach in Tobari Bay on the western coast of Mexico when the 19ft-long shark attacked him on January. Picture: file image of a great white shark
Lopez had been diving without an air tank to a depth of around 59 feet to collect ax tripe, a mollusc which is like a scallop, from the ocean floor when the predator attacked him.
Bernal said some sharks had been seen in the area in the days before the attack and the crew of fishermen had been on high alert.
'Local divers had been warned about the presence of sharks in
