"Unbelievable waterman" Tamayo Perry killed in shark assault while riding off Oahu in Hawaii

A refined surfer and periodic entertainer passed on in the wake of supporting lethal wounds in a shark assault off the island of Oahu in Hawaii, specialists said. Tamayo Perry, 49, was likewise an expert lifeguard for the City and District of Honolulu Sea Wellbeing.

Perry was gone after while he was riding close to Goat Island on Sunday evening, Shayne Enright of the Honolulu Crisis Administrations Division expressed Sunday at a news meeting that was spilled by CBS partner Hawaii News Now.

Honolulu Sea Security and the city's fire, police and crisis clinical benefits divisions answered Mālaekahana Ocean side on Oahu's North Shore not long before 1 p.m. after a guest revealed seeing a surfer who seemed to have endured shark nibbles and was lethally harmed, Enright said.

Lifeguards carried Perry to shore by stream ski and paramedics helped with the demise profession, Enright said.

Perry, who filled in as a lifeguard on the North Shore, started his vocation with the Sea Security division in July 2016, Enright said.

Sea Security faculty posted shark admonitions in the space following the assault, Enright said.

Honolulu Sea Security Acting Boss Kurt Ale, likewise talking at the news meeting, said Perry was "a lifeguard cherished by all."

"He's notable on the North Shore. He's an expert surfer known around the world," said Ale. "Tamayo's character was irresistible, and however much individuals cherished him, he adored every other person more."

Honolulu City chairman Rick Blangiardi repeated those feelings, depicting Perry as a "unbelievable waterman" who was exceptionally regarded. He referred to the demise as "a terrible misfortune."

Perry at first became well known in Hawaii and passed in the mid-2000s, when individual competitors started to observe his unmistakable abilities, especially when it came to free riding the North Shore pipeline, Surfer Magazine detailed after his passing. He proceeded to fashion a lifelong in Hollywood, showing up in the film "Blue Squash" in 2002 and the fourth portion of the "Privateers of the Caribbean" establishment in 2011. Perry likewise showed up in a 2011 episode of the television series "Hawaii Five-O."

John Sullivan, an entertainer who worked with Perry on an episode of "Hawaii Five-O," considered Perry the "most delightful person on Oahu."

"He communicated inspiration any place he went," Sullivan told CBS News on Monday.

Dangerous shark assaults multiplied in 2023 compared to the earlier year, as per the Global Shark Assault Record, a data set that monitors shark assaults detailed all over the planet. One of the two deadly occurrences announced in the U.S. last year occurred in Hawaii, despite the fact that shark assaults by and large happened most often in Florida.

Authorities cautioned individuals in both Florida and Hawaii to stay alert recently after a progression of shark assaults occurred in the two states around the same time, CBS News public reporter Manuel Bojorquez detailed. In Florida, two teens and a lady were gone after by sharks in discrete occurrences that occurred a few miles from one another along a stretch of the Florida Beg. In the meantime, in Hawaii, a lady was truly harmed in a shark assault off the shore of Oahu.