{"id":690844,"date":"2026-05-24T05:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690844\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T05:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:01:08","slug":"man-dies-after-shark-attack-in-far-north-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690844\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after shark attack in Far North Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man has died following a shark attack near Hull Heads in Far North Queensland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services were called to the Hull River boat ramp, 160 kilometres south of Cairns, just after 12pm, after receiving reports of a shark attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 39-year-old man is understood to have been attacked while at Kennedy Shoal, a reef site, before being retrieved from the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Queensland Police said a report will be prepared for the coroner<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It is the <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-05-16\/man-attacked-by-shark-rottnest-island\/106688012\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106688012\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second fatal shark attack in Australian waters<\/a> in as many weeks, after the death of a 38-year-old Perth man off Rottnest Island on May 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Steven Mattaboni was attacked about a kilometre offshore <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-05-22\/friend-of-steven-mattaboni-shark-attack-victim-speaks-out\/106712072\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106712072\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">while spearfishing with friends at Horseshoe Reef off the WA coast.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died following a shark attack near Hull Heads in Far North Queensland. Emergency services were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,14589,44,14322,44439],"class_list":["post-690844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking","tag-news","tag-shark-attack","tag-shark-bite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690844","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=690844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}