Steven Mattaboni was spearfishing with friends when he was attacked off the coast of Perth's 'paradise island'

A routine dive turned fatal in seconds this week, after a diver was attacked and killed by a massive great white shark in waters near a popular tourist destination, off the west c

The 38-year-old Perth man who died while spearfishing off the coast of Western Australia's Rottnest Island on Saturday morning is identified as father-of-two Steven Mattaboni.

For decades, experts and the general public believed that shark attacks on humans were a case of mistaken identity. Some researchers suggest that this may not always be the case, and that some shark bites are simply sharks exploring their natural environment.