{"id":451706,"date":"2026-05-16T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/451706\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:26:07","slug":"man-killed-by-great-white-shark-in-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/451706\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed by great white shark in western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man in his 30s has been killed by a great white shark in western Australia, police and officials said.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old was bitten by the predator just before 10am local time off Rottnest Island near the city of Perth, police said.<\/p>\n

“Sadly, the man was unable to be revived,” Western Australia police said.<\/p>\n

The state’s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development said the man had been bitten by a 4m long great white.<\/p>\n

It urged the public to take “additional caution” in waters around the area, a popular tourist destination.<\/p>\n

It is the first fatal shark attack in Western Australia since March last year, when a surfer was mauled off a remote beach.<\/p>\n

There have been nearly 1,300 shark incidents around Australia since 1791, of which more than 260 resulted in death, according to a database of the predators’ encounters with humans.<\/p>\n

Prior to today the most recent fatality was a 12-year-old boy who died after being attacked by a shark in Sydney Harbour in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That attack was one of four recorded in the span of two days, which prompted officials to close dozens of the city’s beaches.<\/p>\n

It was the city’s third recent shark-related death.<\/p>\n

Australian scientists believe increasingly crowded waters and rising ocean temperatures are swaying sharks’ migratory patterns, which may be contributing to a rise in attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has been killed by a great white shark in western Australia, police and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-451706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}