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The attack was the second shark fatality in the country's waters this year, about a month after surfer Lance Appleby was killed off the Southern Australia coast, per BBC and CBS News. It was also ...
Sydney, Australia — A shark bit and killed a 17-year-old girl swimming off an eastern Australian island on Monday, officials said, in the country's third reported fatal attack in just over five ...
A teenage girl has died after being attacked by a shark in Queensland, Australia. Paramedics responded to reports of a "serious shark bite incident" at Woorim Beach, just north of Brisbane, around ...
More than 1,200 cases of shark attacks in Australia since 1791, of which more than 250 were fatal, according to a national database, reported CBS News. Show comments Advertisement
In addition, individuals and institutions in South Africa, the United States, and Australia keep a file which is regularly updated by an entire research team, the International Shark Attack File, and the Australian Shark Attack File. The Florida Museum of Natural History compares these statistics with the much higher rate of deaths from other ...
The species responsible were the white shark, the bull shark, and the tiger shark. 48% of the reported attacks since 1990 were by white sharks, tiger sharks, and bull sharks. [2] Divers in Australia were especially susceptible to shark attacks in the country, with over a hundred separate and recorded incidents, bites, and attacks involving ...
Many of South Australia's fatal shark attacks have been attributed to the Great white shark. A total of 24 people have been killed by sharks in South Australian waters since the establishment of the colony in 1836. Prior to 2014, there had been 82 recorded shark attacks in South Australia. 20 of those have involved a single fatality. Victims ...
The Queensland Ambulance Service responded to a “serious shark bite incident” involving the 17-year-old victim at Woorim Beach, north of Brisbane, at around 4:45 p.m. local time on Monday, Feb ...