{"id":891343,"date":"2026-09-14T05:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/891343\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T05:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:42:20","slug":"man-rushed-to-hospital-after-shark-attack-north-of-geraldton-in-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/891343\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rushed to hospital after shark attack north of Geraldton in WA"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has been rushed to hospital after a shark attack in Western Australia’s Midwest.<\/p>\n

The man was surfing at Glenfield Beach, north of Geraldton, about 430 kilometres north of Perth, this morning, when he was bitten by a shark about 9:45am.<\/p>\n

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The man was surfing at Glenfield Beach, about 13km north of Geraldton. (ABC Midwest & Wheatbelt: Chris Lewis)<\/p>\n

St John Ambulance said the man, aged in his 50s, was taken to Geraldton Health Campus under priority one conditions.<\/p>\n

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Police and fisheries staff examine the man’s surfboard. (ABC Midwest & Wheatbelt: Chris Lewis)<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the WA Country Health Service (WACHS) said the man was in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n

Officials removed a badly damaged surfboard from the scene, which is being tested to determine the species of shark involved.<\/p>\n

Western Australia’s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) said fisheries officials were working with local authorities to respond.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

The beach has been closed to the public after the attack. (ABC Midwest & Wheatbelt: Chris Lewis)<\/p>\n

The beach has been closed, with residents asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Geraldton MP and Shadow Fisheries Minister Kirrilee Warr said she was seeking further details from authorities and the government.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police and fisheries officials speak to witnesses after the attack. (ABC Midwest & Wheatbelt: Chris Lewis)<\/p>\n

“Our thoughts are with the victim, their family and the first responders involved in this incident,” Ms Warr said.<\/p>\n

There have been two fatal shark attacks in Western Australia in 2026, with 38-year-old Perth man Steven Mattaboni killed while spearfishing<\/a> off Rottnest Island in May.<\/p>\n

In early June, 35-year-old diver Daniel Turpin, was killed<\/a> by a suspected 4.5-metre shark near Michaelmas Island, off the coast of Albany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been rushed to hospital after a shark attack in Western Australia’s Midwest. The man was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,56193,461007,461003,108326,44,14322,461004,461006,461005,430312,1042,45],"class_list":["post-891343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-geraldton-news","tag-glenfield","tag-glenfield-beach","tag-midwest-news","tag-news","tag-shark-attack","tag-shark-attack-geraldton","tag-shark-attack-gero","tag-shark-attack-glenfield-beach","tag-shark-incidents","tag-sharks","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891343","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=891343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}