British former boxing champion, Cam Shaw, died by drowning, on October 24, 2022, while snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
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He was aged 25.
Shaw was on a holiday in Cairns, Queensland, in company of three of his friends, including his girlfriend when the incident occurred.
He was described as a “gregarious, helpful and convivial guy – who threw his all into everything he did.”
Shaw was a passionate swimmer. “I taught him to swim at Water World in York when he was aged two and a half and he reached up to nine out of a possible eleven levels”, his father, Rod had said.
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Shaw holds an Amateur Boxing Elite 60kg title and won a gold medal at the Hivdovre Box Cup in Denmark in 2017.
Billy Wilson, head coach at the York Boxing club, where Shaw trained, said: “I knew Cam very well. He was a vibrant kid, full of beans, always joking and laughing, he was a good lad, a hard worker and lived his life to the fullest.”
Although, there are no suspicions attached to his death, but the Police are currently carrying out investigations.


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