A FOURTEEN year old boy died minutes after he was savaged by a shark at Buffels Bay in the Western Cape resort of Knysna on Thursday. Hercules Pretorius, was body-boarding with two friends off a beach when the shark attacked about 50mfrom shore. He was bitten in the side and died before an emergency medical team could arrive. “One boy ran up to us and asked us to phone an ambulance. They were body-boarding not very deep, in chin-high water. The incident is the fifth where a shark has attacked a human in South Africa this year. Last year 15 shark attacks on humans were recorded in South African waters. One person was killed.