"PACIFIC GROVE The day after the body of shark-attack victim Erica Fox was discovered along the Davenport shoreline some 25 miles from here, her husband, dozens of Kelp Krawlers swim club members and friends formed a solemn procession along the Lovers Point bluffs here, mirroring her final mile-long swim. She didn't want to live in fear, said her husband, Jean-Francois Vanreusel, who was swimming a hundred yards behind her along with 13 other club members last Sunday when a shark breached the surface and his wife of 30 years vanished below."
"Every day since, Vanreusel returned to the Pacific Grove promontory overlooking the sea, communing with friends, hoping for a sign of his 55-year-old wife. On Saturday afternoon, a full week after Fox disappeared, he received a call from local law enforcement, confirming the identity of the body discovered just beyond the northern tip of Monterey Bay. She was still clad in her black and blue wetsuit, Vanreusel said, her white Garmin watch and a shark band still attached to her ankle. The band is an electromagnetic device meant to ward off the ambush predator that ended her life."
Erica Fox, 55, an open-water swimmer and Kelp Krawlers co-founder, disappeared during a swim off Lovers Point on Dec. 21 when a shark breached the surface. Her body was recovered a week later along the Davenport shoreline about 25 miles away; she remained in her wetsuit with a white Garmin watch and a shark-band device attached to her ankle. Husband Jean-Francois Vanreusel, who swam about 100 yards behind her with other club members, helped lead a procession along the Lovers Point bluffs mirroring her final swim. The death is the second shark fatality at Lovers Point in 73 years.
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