{"id":486301,"date":"2026-06-06T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486301\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:19:15","slug":"third-fatal-australia-shark-attack-in-three-weeks-as-man-killed-in-waters-off-west-coast-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486301\/","title":{"rendered":"Third fatal Australia shark attack in three weeks as man killed in waters off west coast \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man has \u200cdied after being attacked by a shark while fishing off \u200cthe coast of Western <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/australia\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/australia\/\">Australia<\/a>, police said on Saturday, the \u200bthird fatal shark attack in Australia in three weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 35-year-old was attacked on Saturday morning while spearfishing with family \u200boff the state\u2019s south coast at Michaelmas Island, close to \u2060the town of Albany, about 388km south \u200bof state capital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/perth\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/perth\/\">Perth<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The state\u2019s police force confirmed on Saturday afternoon that he had died after being treated by paramedics at the scene for more than two hours. St John Ambulance said multiple crews of paramedics had remained at the scene treating the man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 4.5m (14.8ft) shark, of an \u200cunknown species, was spotted by \u200ba member of the public near Michaelmas \u2060Island, a nature reserve \u2060that \u200breceives few visitors, on Saturday, state authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On May 24, a 39-year-old man died after being attacked by a shark while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/australia\/2026\/05\/24\/man-dies-after-shark-attack-on-australias-great-barrier-reef\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/australia\/2026\/05\/24\/man-dies-after-shark-attack-on-australias-great-barrier-reef\/\">fishing on the Great Barrier Reef<\/a>. The death followed that of a 38-year-old mauled \u200coff an island \u2060near Perth 10 days earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The department of primary industries warned people to take additional caution in the Michaelmas Island area following the latest fatality, and to adhere to any beach closures advised by local park rangers or surf life savers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The department said it was working with police and other local authorities to co-ordinate the response to the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Police said they would prepare a report for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There are around 20 shark attacks in Australia every year but \u200cthe vast majority are not fatal, according to data \u200bfrom conservation groups. Far more people \u200bdrown on the country\u2019s beaches. \u2013 Reuters, Guardian <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has \u200cdied after being attacked by a shark while fishing off \u200cthe coast of Western Australia,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[986,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-486301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","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\/486301","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=486301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}