{"id":241276,"date":"2026-01-19T19:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/241276\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:31:08","slug":"second-sydney-shark-attack-on-young-victim-within-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/241276\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Sydney shark attack on young victim within 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young surfer has narrowly escaped being bitten during a shark attack at a Sydney beach a day after a boy was severely mauled<\/a> in the city’s harbour. <\/p>\n

The 11-year-old was surfing at Dee Why Beach, on Sydney’s northern beaches, on Monday morning when a shark bit his board several times, taking a clear chunk out of the mid-section.<\/p>\n

The young surfer was unharmed and left the water with other boardriders. <\/p>\n

Dee Why Beach was closed at the time of the attack due to large swells and remained closed as investigations into the incident continued, Surf Life Saving NSW said.<\/p>\n

The organisation is providing assistance through drone surveillance. <\/p>\n

Local media outlet Manly Observer shared a photo of the boy’s board alongside reports from witnesses who said they saw a bull shark up to five feet (1.5 metres) long.<\/p>\n

The attack comes less than 24 hours after three teenagers heroically leapt<\/a> into action to save the life of a friend who was critically injured in a shark attack in eastern Sydney.<\/p>\n

The 13-year-old boy remains in hospital with injuries to both legs after being bitten by a shark at a swimming spot in Vaucluse on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Dee Why is also a stone’s throw from where avid surfer Mercury Psillakis, 57, was fatally mauled by a shark in September.<\/p>\n

Police on Monday urged people stay out of the water after bucketing rain drenched Sydney and its surrounds at the weekend.<\/p>\n

Extra fresh water in the harbour after recent heavy rain, combined with the splashing effect from people jumping off a rock face, created a “perfect storm” for Sunday’s shark attack, Superintendent Joseph McNulty said.<\/p>\n

“I would recommend not swimming in the harbour or our other river systems across NSW at this time,” he told reporters before the Dee Why incident was reported.<\/p>\n

Heavy swell has also prevented the operation of smart drumlines, which notify authorities of shark activity, along most of the NSW coast since Sunday.<\/p>\n

The teenager injured in Sunday’s attack underwent surgery overnight and remained in a critical condition at Randwick Children’s Hospital on Monday, surrounded by family.<\/p>\n

He and his friends were jumping off a six-metre rock into the ocean when the shark struck.<\/p>\n

At least one of the victim’s friends jumped into the water and pulled him out after the attack, while the others called for emergency services, McNulty said.<\/p>\n

“The actions of his mates who have gone into the water to pull him out have been nothing but brave,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Those actions of those young men are brave under the circumstances and very confronting injuries for those boys to see, but I suppose that’s mateship.”<\/p>\n

The primary industries department, which oversaw shark mitigation, was working to identify the species of shark involved in the attack, with initial reports suggesting it was a bull shark.<\/p>\n

The incident happened near Nielsen Park and Shark Beach, a popular swimming spot for families with a netted area inside Sydney Harbour.<\/p>\n

Multiple swimmers have been attacked by sharks in the harbour in recent years, including a young woman who was bitten on the leg at Elizabeth Bay in early 2024.<\/p>\n

Mercury Psillakis’s death \u2013 at Long Reef Beach on Sydney’s northern beaches \u2013 caused the state government to pull a trial to remove a handful of shark meshing nets off popular beaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young surfer has narrowly escaped being bitten during a shark attack at a Sydney beach a day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-241276","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\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241276","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=241276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}