Man Killed By Shark As Friend Watches Helpless

A California surfer has been killed in a shark attack off a beach at the Vandenberg Air Force Base.

The attack was reported by another surfer on Tuesday morning off the coast of Surf Beach in Lompoc, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.

Francisco Javier Solorio Jr "had a friend who he was surfing with who saw the shark bite or hit the man," said Sheriff's Sgt Mark A Williams.

A sign has been put up after the fatal attack at Surf Beach, California

"His friend ended up swimming over and pulling him from the water where he received first aid."

Another surfer called for help but the male victim was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.

He is thought to have suffered a massive bite to the upper torso. His surf board also had bite marks on it, police said.

The Air Force said only that the 39-year-old was not affiliated with the base, which allows public access to some of its beaches.

The type of shark involved and other details are under investigation.

There were no shark warning signs posted at Surf Beach on Tuesday, said Lt. Erik Raney, adding that beaches do not typically post such notices unless the location had a recent shark sighting.

An expert has the attack was likely to have been carried out by a great white shark.

Andrew Nosal, of the Scripps Institiute of Oceanography, told the Los Angeles Times: "There is not other species swimming off the coast regularly that could possibly do that kind of damage."

It was the latest shark attack fatality at Surf Beach, about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles. California has seen 13 fatal attacks since 1950.

In October 2010, Lucas Ransom, a 19-year-old student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, died when a shark nearly severed his leg as he body-boarded.

Hundreds of miles south near the coast of San Diego, a 15ft great white shark is believed to have killed triathlete David Martin in 2008.

Fatal shark attacks are rare. There is an average of 65 incidents around the world every year, which typically result in two or three deaths, according to the Pew Environment Group.

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