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beaches around gracetown have been closed because of yesterdays shark attack, which claimed the life of Nicholas Edwards and he has two children which sadly will never see him again. which will be closed until noon tommorow.
 * GRACETOWN shark victim Nicholas Edwards had an earlier close call with a shark on the Gold Coast, but said if he died in the surf it would be "doing something I love.''**

The 31-year-old Nicholas Edwards was on his surf board on tuesday morning at south point near Grace town, about 270km from the south of perth, when he was attacked by a shark.

The surfers and ambulance officers tried to keep him alive,but he died after suffering a deadly bite to his right leg.

Nicholas Edwards was trying to get in one last surf before returning to his job as a miner in the WA Goldfields.

Today his mother, Leona Lindner, said that when her son lived on the Gold Coast he came in from a surf very quickly one day after a close call with a shark

``I warned him all the time,'' Mrs Lindner told Fairfax Radio in Perth.

``I said, 'Don't go in Nick, never again', but he said, 'Mum I love surfing and if I am going to die then I will die doing something I love'.

``I have to tell you, between his mining and surfing we wondered when a phone call like this would come.'' His mum said her son loved life and surfing, and that's why he had chosen to live at Busselton Mr Edwards, who with his wife and two children, aged two and seven, only recently moved to Busselton, was a fly-in fly-out mine worker in the northern WA Goldfields mining centre of Leinster. Ambulance officers applied CPR on the way to Margaret River Hospital but he was pronounced dead on arrival.

He said it may never be known what sort of shark attacked Mr Edwards.

However great white sharks are common off that part of the WA coast and are a protected species. They can be considered as a threat.