PERSONAL REFLECTION: ‘We are here, Janine’ — my account of fatal Orient Beach shark attack

Journalist and open-water swimmer Mike Loewe was in the water when his friend Janine Lochrenberg was fatally attacked by a shark at Orient Beach. He recounts the desperate attempt to save her, the heartbreaking realisation that a beloved friend had been lost and the powerful bond that will draw the open-water swimming community back to the ocean.