{"id":464033,"date":"2026-06-06T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464033\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:28:11","slug":"diver-dies-after-western-australia-attack-by-suspected-4-5m-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464033\/","title":{"rendered":"Diver dies after Western Australia attack by suspected 4.5m shark"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Yiying Li, Andrew Chounding and Keane Bourke, ABC News<\/p>\n

\"Australian<\/p>\n

\nWestern Australian police investigating a fatal shark attack near Albany.
\nPhoto: ABC News: Rosemary Murphy\n<\/p>\n

A male diver has died, after he was bitten by a suspected 4.5-metre shark off the southern Western Australian coast.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old man was taken by boat to shore, after emergency services responded to reports of a shark attack at 11.25am, local time, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The man was spearfishing with family off Michaelmas Island, near Albany, when he was attacked, according to police.<\/p>\n

“He was conveyed back to shore by boat where he was met by SJA [St John Ambulance] WA paramedics,” Western Australia police said. “Sadly, he was unable to be revived.<\/p>\n

“WA Police will prepare a report for the coroner.”<\/p>\n

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) said it was assisting WA Police and local authorities with the serious shark incident.<\/p>\n

Michaelmas Island is about 13km from the nearest stretch of Albany coastline and about a five-hour drive from Perth.<\/p>\n

Second fatal shark attack in past four weeks<\/p>\n

This is the second fatal shark attack in Western Australia in the past four weeks.<\/p>\n

On 16 May, 38-year-old Perth man Steven Mattaboni was killed in a shark attack, when he was spearfishing with three friends off Rottnest Island.<\/p>\n

Mattaboni was bitten on the legs by a four-metre shark just before 10am that day at Horseshoe Reef.<\/p>\n

– ABC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Yiying Li, Andrew Chounding and Keane Bourke, ABC News Western Australian police investigating a fatal shark attack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-464033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464033","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=464033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}