Diver killed by sharks was a dad of 4 who tried to use GoPro stick to beat back predators

The diver killed by sharks off the coast of Israel has been identified as a father of four who used a GoPro camera stick to try and fend off the predators, according to his grieving family.

Barak Tzach, 40, jumped in the water to film the sharks at the beach in Hadera when a chilling video showed him flailing in the water, yelling for help, as he was attacked and dragged out to sea.

When the sharks started getting too close, he used the stick of the GoPro to “push them away,” his family told Israel National News.

The grieving relatives denied rumors that the dad had been trying to feed the sharks — as others were filmed doing at the same beach the previous

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