{"id":240446,"date":"2026-01-19T02:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240446\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T02:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:41:11","slug":"boy-leapt-into-water-to-rescue-mate-in-sydney-shark-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240446\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy leapt into water to rescue mate in Sydney shark attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 13-year-old boy who was bitten by a shark was saved by a friend who leapt into the water to drag him out. <\/p>\n

The boy was swimming off Shark Beach at Vaucluse yesterday<\/a> when he was bitten almost immediately after jumping from a rock ledge.<\/p>\n

Police believed the attacker was a bull shark, based on the pattern of injuries to both legs.<\/p>\n

Appearing on Nine’s Today programme, NSW Police Superintendent Joseph McNulty said the boy’s mate showed “incredible bravery” by jumping in after him.<\/p>\n

“As soon as he was in the water, he was bitten,” McNulty said.<\/p>\n

“One of his mates jumped in and helped retrieve him from the water, and that’s some heroic actions just in itself. It was incredible bravery by that young man.”<\/p>\n

McNulty said a police boat arrived on scene, with responding officers offering immediate first aid, including a tourniquet system, and CPR.<\/p>\n

“He applied that [tourniquet] to both limbs and stopped the [bleeding], which potentially saved that young boy’s life.”<\/p>\n

The boy was taken to shore and transferred to Sydney Children’s Hospital, where he remains in a critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n

Paramedics’ efforts to stabilise him were described as “miraculous”.<\/p>\n

Police closed Shark Beach and nearby swimming areas while marine experts worked to confirm the species involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old boy who was bitten by a shark was saved by a friend who leapt into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-240446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-animals","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}