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There were no fatal shark attacks anywhere in South Australia during the years 2015 through 2022, Three surfers were killed by sharks in separate incidents in 2023, and a false positive was reported, based on speculation in 2021. The three surfers all died in remote, regional locations while surfing or swimming at a surf break.
This is a list of fatal shark attacks in Australia. The Australian Shark-Incident Database has recorded that between 1791 and April 2018 there were 237 fatal shark attacks in Australia. [ 1 ] In the two years of 2020 and 2021 there were 11 fatal shark attacks in Australia.
Emergency services were searching for the body of a surfer in South Australia on Wednesday morning after a suspected shark attack, police said. South Australia Police said in a statement that the ...
Australia's last fatal shark attack happened in December 2023, when a teenage boy was killed in the south. Just this year, there have been four other shark incidents in Australia, according to a ...
A Great White Shark swimming here, was spotted in waters where a shark is suspected of attacking a surfer on Granites Beach in South Australia on Jan. 2, 2025, police said.
Since shark netting began in 1937, the number of deaths from sharks on beaches has been reduced in New South Wales, with only one fatal attack on a netted beach during that time. In Queensland there has not been a fatal attack on a netted beach since nets were introduced in the 1960s. [8]
Lists of fatal shark attacks include: List of fatal shark attacks in Australia; List of fatal shark attacks in Réunion; List of fatal shark attacks in South African territorial waters; List of fatal shark attacks in the United States
A shark attacked and killed a teenaged boy in the waters off a holiday and surfing spot on Australia's south coast, police said on Thursday. The body was pulled from the water after the attack ...