“I can’t believe that he went to sea by himself… and that was the outcome. Sad to know. I feel so bad,” he told the Jamaica Observer, adding that he had tried to discourage his son from his spearfishing hobby.
Jahmari’s mother, Lavern Robinson, told the Jamaica Star: “Right now [I] don’t know what to say. Jahmari has been going to [the] sea [since he was] small.”
The group of divers who found the teenager’s body said they saw a “big” tiger shark close by, according to Christopher Reynolds, a fisherman.
“All of the fishermen went out there and, while they were diving to take him up, they saw the big shark. They shot at him but they didn’t get him,” he added.