{"id":674088,"date":"2026-05-16T05:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674088\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:27:11","slug":"shark-attack-leaves-man-critically-injured-off-western-australia-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674088\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark attack leaves man critically injured off Western Australia coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islam Uddin<\/p>\n<p>16 May 2026\u2022Update: 16 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>A man wad attacked by a shark on Rottnest Island, off Perth&#8217;s coast, ABC News in Australia reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency officials said the victim, who was in his 30s, was taken by boat to shore, where paramedics were waiting to provide treatment before he was airlifted to a hospital by a rescue helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Western Australia\u2019s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development said it received a report of a possible shark bite in the morning and urged the public to exercise extra caution in the Geordie Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are coordinating with local agencies following reports of an approximately five-meter (16-foot) white shark sighted near Thomson Bay shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Rottnest Island is a major tourist destination popular with swimmers, divers and holidaymakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Uddin 16 May 2026\u2022Update: 16 May 2026 A man wad attacked by a shark on Rottnest Island,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,296002],"class_list":["post-674088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}