{"id":900461,"date":"2026-09-21T20:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900461\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T20:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:12:18","slug":"binningup-beach-shark-alarm-issued-days-after-fatal-perth-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900461\/","title":{"rendered":"Binningup Beach shark alarm issued days after fatal Perth attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A whale carcass has sparked a shark alert 90 minutes south of Perth, off Binningup Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Fisheries officers are monitoring the carcass that washed up at the northern end of the beach on Monday afternoon, three days after a fatal shark attack off Sorrento in Perth\u2019s north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The Department of Primary Industries issued a public alert, warning that it may attract sharks close to shore and people should exercise additional caution, and report any sightings to Water Police on 9442 8600.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">There were nine shark sightings reported in 24 hours off the south-west coast between Busselton and Eagle Bay, with the biggest a 3.5 metre white shark spotted at Curtis Bay near Dunsborough on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The shark that killed Greg O\u2019Neill off Sorrento has not been identified since Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Capture gear was deployed, but withdrawn on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The Westpac surf lifesaving helicopter also reported a three metre shark 250 metres off Mindarie Beach on Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A whale carcass has sparked a shark alert 90 minutes south of Perth, off Binningup Beach. Fisheries officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,1042,45],"class_list":["post-900461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-sharks","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900461","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=900461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}