The Bachelor couple Jimmy Nicholson and Holly Kingston have defended sharing an Instagram post about swimming with sharks just one day after a 35-year-old man was killed by a great white in Sydney.
Nicholson, 32, shared a gallery of photos on Thursday of himself and Kingston, 28, shark-spotting and snorkelling in the ocean off Vomo Island Resort in Fiji, where they are holidaying as part of a sponsored deal.
The images showed the pair, who fell in love on the Channel 10 dating show last year, watching sharks from their boat then diving in for a swim with snorkels and flippers.
Bad timing? The Bachelor couple Jimmy Nicholson and Holly Kingston have defended sharing an Instagram post about swimming with sharks just one day after a 35-year-old man was killed by a great white in Sydney
‘Holz looks a bit startled… can you guess why,’ the airline pilot captioned the pictures, adding snorkel and shark emojis.
While many of Nicholson’s followers praised the photos, some suggested the timing wasn’t appropriate given the tragedy unfolding back in Australia.
‘Maybe not the best timing for that photo,’ one fan commented.
Idyllic: Nicholson, 32, shared a gallery of photos on Thursday of himself and Kingston, 28, shark-spotting and snorkelling in the ocean off Vomo Island Resort in Fiji, where they are holidaying as part of a sponsored deal
Deep blue: The images showed the pair, who fell in love on the Channel 10 dating show last year, watching sharks from the boat then diving in for a swim with snorkels and flippers
Fun in the sun: ‘Holz looks a bit startled.. can you guess why,’ the airline pilot captioned the pictures, adding snorkel and shark emojis.
Another added: ‘Oh, geez, a person was killed by a great white shark yesterday at Little Bay in the eastern suburbs [of Sydney].’
The reality stars acknowledged the tragedy in the comments section, with Kingston replying: ‘So terribly sad.’
‘Yes, very tragic. I have spent my life in the ocean and it’s the risk we run,’ added Nicholson, who was born and raised in Sydney.
He went on to describe the experience as ‘magic’ and joked he couldn’t get the children’s song Baby Shark out of his head.
‘Not the best timing for that photo’: While many of Nicholson’s followers praised the photos, some suggested the timing wasn’t appropriate given the tragedy unfolding back in Australia
Incident: The couple acknowledged the tragedy in the comments section, with Kingston replying: ‘So terribly sad’
Risk: ‘Yes, very tragic. I have spent my life in the ocean and it’s the risk we run,’ added Nicholson, who was born and raised in Sydney
Love story: Nicholson and Kingston are pictured on Channel 10 dating show The Bachelor
A 35-year-old British diving instructor has been identified as the person killed in a shark attack off a Sydney beach, as officials reopened several beaches after the city’s first fatal attack in 60 years.
Simon Nellist, who moved to Australia about six years ago, was killed on Wednesday off Little Bay beach, about 20km south of Australia’s largest city while training for a weekend charity swim event, said friends.
Nellist, a former UK Royal Air Force serviceman, was a member of the city’s scuba diving club and a regular swimmer at the beach.
Tragic: A 35-year-old British diving instructor, Simon Nellist (pictured with his partner Jessie Ho), has been identified as the person killed in a shark attack off a Sydney beach
What happened: This infographic explains how Nellist was killed by a great white shark and what happened in the aftermath of the fatal attack
Authorities have set up drumlines, which are used to bait sharks, near the attack site, while drones and helicopters were searching to see if the shark was still in the area.
Local Randwick City mayor Dylan Parker said there had been no further sighting of sharks in the area and allowed several beaches to reopen after shutting them on Thursday, including the city’s iconic Bondi beach.
Shark attacks near Sydney’s beaches are rare due to the presence of specially designed ‘shark nets’ that reduce the chance of a shark attack but do not create a total barrier between swimmers and sharks.
It was the first fatal shark attack in Sydney since 1963.
Rare: Shark attacks near Sydney’s beaches are rare due to the presence of specially designed ‘shark nets’ that reduce the chance of a shark attack but do not create a total barrier between swimmers and sharks. Pictured: a boat patrols the site of a fatal shark attack on Thursday
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