'Straight away I knew it was a shark attack' says survivor David Pickering David Pickering, pictured last year after he suffered non-life threatening injures from a shark attack near Coral Bay. WHEN shark attack survivor David Pickering heard sirens yesterday morning he immediately knew the worst had happened again. The 28-year-old, who was bitten by a shark in Coral Bay in 2012, was staying in Gracetown with his sister for the Margaret River Gourmet Escape. "I heard the ambos and a chopper and I thought, 'Shark'," the real estate agent said. Straight away I knew it was a shark attack. I thought, 'It's on'. I just knew. It seems to follow me everywhere I go. It's a real tragedy. I know what he's been through and you just can't imagine it. A 3m tiger shark mauled Mr Pickering's right arm while he was leading a diving tour in January 2012. Mr Pickering, who has a shark attack survivor tattoo on his arm, formed a Bite Club for other survivors. He is against shark culling but agrees with the authorities killing the shark responsible for the fatal attack. We're in their turf, but at the same time the whale numbers and the shark numbers are really rebounding. There is a lot of them out there," he said. Matt Holmes, the man who pulled the body of shark attack victim Ben Linden out of the water last year, said yesterday's death brought back horrific memories. Mr Linden, 24, was taken by a 4m great white while surfing near Wedge Island, 160km north of Perth, in July 2012. Mr Holmes witnessed the attack from his jet ski and tried to pull Mr Linden's remains out of the water. I just heard about it and my heart is bloody racing. I instantly had a flashback of what I saw," Mr Holmes said. The 23-year-old, previously a keen diver and surfer, has given up water sports and believes more needs to be done to make WA beaches safer. They are talking about lots of options and spending money on research, but they are not actually putting anything in place that's actually working. I'm surprised there hasn't been more attacks than what there has been. I don't think they should go and kill every shark out there, but what do they have in place? By the time they got to the scene at Lefthanders it would have been a couple of hours after the attack. Mr Holmes, who now works at the West Angelas mine in the Pilbara, said many of his friends had stopped surfing since his experience. Everyone is too scared to go out - especially at Lefthanders in Gracetown. That is one of the most eerie places you will ever surf and I surfed there a lot," he said.