Remember when we told about the South African lifeguard who disappeared and nobody knew what happened to him...until a mangled fin washed ashore? This story seems to be a variation on the same theme, except it wasn't a fin that searchers recovered -- it was internal organs.
Twenty-year-old Australian Thomas Houghton was swimming with some friends last Friday, when a rip caught him. His two friends tried to pull him back but were unable. Search efforts lasted through the weekend, but were called off when lifeguards found human organs. Only 2 hours earlier, a rescue helicopter team had reported seeing a pack of five sharks in a feeding frenzy 1500 feet out to sea.
Police have refused to comment on whether or not the organs belonged to Houghton until tests have been completed at a forensic lab. However, according to North Coast lifeguard supervisor Peter Baird, "If you put two and two together you have to make an assumption."
[Via Swim At Your Own Risk]
