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His cry was heard simultaneously by his friend, Brookner Brady, Jr., 

 aged 15, who was swimming close by, and John C. Bassford, who was 

 sitting on a rise directly above the beach. Bassford, assistant manager 

 of the Monterey (California) office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance 

 Company, and an experienced skin-diver, was 30 yards from Barr\' 

 when he heard the scream. Bassford saw the actual attack. An instant 

 before Barry screamed, Bassford noticed that the youth seemed to be 

 frantically scanning the water around him. Then, as Barry's face was 

 transfixed in terror, a large shark appeared directly in front of him. 

 While Bassford shouted a warning to Barry's companion, the shark struck 

 Barry. Bassford saw Barry's body thrust straight out of the water up to 

 about his thighs. 



Barry pushed both his hands against the shark, trying to free himself. 

 But he fell sideways, still clutched by the shark, and was pulled under. 

 Blood gushed upward and spread on the surface, forming a circle about 

 6 feet in diameter. Barry suddenly bobbed to the surface in the middle 

 of the circle, screamed again, and began beating the water with his hands. 



Now the shark appeared again, part of its back showing above the 

 surface. It swept past Barry, then returned— and finally disappeared. 

 Whether it struck Barr>^ again, Bassford didn't know. 



Although he had seen the attack, 15-year-old Brookner Brady would 

 not leave his friend. He swam 50 feet to Barry's side and began towing 

 him to shore. 



Meanwhile, four members of the Sea Otter Club, a skin-divers' group, 

 swam out to Barry and Brookner. Three of the Sea Otters were trained 

 investigators: Sergeant Earl Stanley of the 63rd Aiilitary Police Platoon 

 stationed at nearby Fort Ord; Robert Shaw of the 313th Criminal In- 

 vestigation Detachment at Fort Ord; and Frank M. Ambrosio of the 

 California State Highway Patrol. The fourth Sea Otter was John L. 

 Poskus, a mathematics and physics teacher at Monterey High School. 



The four rescuers brought with them a large inner tube which they 

 managed to get around Barry's body and up under his limp arms. As 

 they struggled in the water with the bulky tube, Barry suddenly lunged 

 forward. Startled, Shaw looked around to see who had pushed Barry so 

 violently. Shaw saw a shark, just as it turned away, and he realized 

 what had pushed Barry. The shark had not given up its victim. 



Shaw and Ambrosio clung to opposite sides of the inner tube, pushing 

 it, while Poskus pulled it with a nylon rope he had attached to it. 

 Stanley kept to the back of the tube, supporting Barry's head to keep it 

 from falling backward into the water. 



Through rough seas, the men headed for a small breakwater pier. 

 It was a slow, arduous journey that lasted more than 20 minutes. And 



