A woman believed to be in her 30s was critically injured in a shark attack off Sydney’s Coogee Beach on Saturday at 11:15 a.m., suffering serious leg and arm injuries. Police say bystanders pulled her from the water and paramedics transported her to a nearby r
At 11:15 a.m. on Saturday, a woman was attacked while swimming off Coogee Beach, one of Sydney’s best-known stretches of sand and surf. Police said she was critically injured, suffering serious injuries to her leg and arm.
Bystanders pulled her from the water and began first aid on the beach until paramedics arrived. She was then taken to a rugby field near the shoreline, from where she was flown by helicopter to a hospital. Police described her condition as critical.
The incident is the latest blow in a run of shark attacks that has killed spearfishing divers along Australia’s coast since May 16. Three spearfishing divers have been killed by sharks off the Australian coast since that date, bringing the total number of fatalities in the nation this year to four.
Australia has averaged between two and three fatal shark attacks each year since 2000, according to the Australian Shark Incident Database, a partnership of the Taronga Conservation Society Australia, Flinders University and the New South Wales state government.
Last Saturday. a 4.5-meter (15-foot) white shark killed Daniel Turpin. 35. as he was spearfishing with family off Michaelmas Island near the port city of Albany in Western Australia state. On May 24. 39-year-old spearfishing diver Michael Jensz suffered fatal head injuries in an attack on the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s northeast coast. where bull sharks had been seen in the vicinity. A week earlier. on May 16. a four-meter (13-foot) white shark fatally mauled 38-year-old spearfishing diver Steve Mattabonni off the coast of Perth. Western Australia.
Australia’s other fatal shark attack this year occurred in January, when a 12-year-old boy died in a hospital days after he was mauled by a bull shark in Sydney Harbor.
A decade-by-decade shift has made these encounters increasingly visible. Attacks in Australia have become more common over the decades as the population has grown and activities such as surfing and scuba diving have gained in popularity. Last year, Australia recorded five fatal shark attacks.
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How is anyone still swimming there…
So she was swimming and then got pulled out by bystanders, wow. But aren’t they saying white sharks are the ones? I feel like they never really know what kind it was until later.
“Critical” injuries like leg and arm… I saw somewhere it was a bull shark though, not white. Also, doesn’t flying her to a hospital mean she was already basically gone? Idk I just hate that this keeps happening near beaches like it’s normal.
This year has been nonstop, like since May. First that diver in Western Australia, then that guy on the reef, and now Coogee. I keep hearing “shark attacks are up” but then they say Australia averages 2-3 fatal ones since 2000 so which is it lol. I’m not gonna lie I’m scared to even go to the beach now, and we don’t even have sharks like that here.