{"id":718481,"date":"2026-06-06T06:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/718481\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:42:09","slug":"diver-dies-after-attack-by-suspected-4-5m-shark-off-albany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/718481\/","title":{"rendered":"Diver dies after attack by suspected 4.5m shark off Albany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A male diver has died after he was bitten by a suspected 4.5-metre shark off the southern Western Australian coast, WA police have confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 35-year-old man was taken by boat to shore after emergency services responded to reports of a\u00a0shark\u00a0attack at 11:25am, local time, on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was spearfishing with family off Michaelmas Island, near Albany, when he was attacked, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;He was conveyed back to shore by boat where he was met by SJA [St John Ambulance] WA paramedics,&#8221; WA police said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Sadly, he was unable to be revived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;WA Police will prepare a report for the coroner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) said it was assisting WA Police and local authorities with the serious shark incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Michaelmas Island is about 13 kilometres from the nearest stretch of Albany coastline and about a five-hour drive from Perth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">DPIRD has urged people in the area to report to Water Police on 9442 8600 if they see a shark.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A male diver has died after he was bitten by a suspected 4.5-metre shark off the southern Western&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28222,40358,64,63,1348,17724,4895,44,17726,17725,86,1158,2269,14322,45],"class_list":["post-718481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-accident","tag-albany","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news","tag-emergency-services","tag-incident","tag-news","tag-perth-breaking-news","tag-perth-emergency","tag-perth-news","tag-police","tag-shark","tag-shark-attack","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718481","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=718481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}