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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.
Shark biologists from the NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development reviewed photographs of the incident and identified the shark as a great white approximately 3m in length ...
A surfer’s leg that was severed by a shark attack on Tuesday later washed up on an Australian beach, where a police officer retrieved it and put on ice.. CNN affiliate 7News reported that Kai ...
A surfer is fighting for his life in the hospital after he was attacked by a shark off Australia’s east coast, police said Friday. Surfer fights for his life after shark attack in Australia Skip ...
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 ...
The Australian Shark Attack File [126] has recorded that since 1791 there have been 639 shark attacks in Australia with 190 of them being fatal. [127] 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.
Statistics from the NSW Department of Primary Industries indicate that before nets were introduced in NSW in 1936 there was an average of one fatal shark attack every year. There has been only one fatal attack on a protected beach since then and that was in 1951.
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.