A diver has died after being attacked by a shark while spearfishing with his family near a remote Australian island.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old was bitten by a suspected 4.5-metre shark after 11am on Saturday off Michaelmas Island near Albany in Western Australia’s south west.<\/p>\n
“He was conveyed back to shore by boat where he was met by paramedics,” WA Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Sadly, he was unable to be revived.”<\/p>\n
WA Premier Roger Cook said he was “deeply saddened” by the incident.<\/p>\n
“This is a tragedy and my thoughts are with the victim’s family and friends, as well as the first responders,” he said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
“I know members of the community will wrap their arms around them.”<\/p>\n
Authorities urged people to take additional caution in the Michaelmas Island area and adhere to beach closures.<\/p>\n
The death came after father of two, Steven “Mattas” Mattaboni, was killed while diving at Horseshoe Reef off Rottnest Island near Perth in May.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old was pulled from the water after being bitten and was rushed by boat to a jetty at Geordie Bay on the north side of the island.<\/p>\n
Paramedics were unable to revive him.<\/p>\n
A five-metre white shark was spotted 80m offshore about the time of that attack, according to Surf Life Saving WA.<\/p>\n
Police will prepare a report for the coroner.<\/p>\n
Michaelmas Island is about 15 kilometres from the seaside town of Albany, which is about a five-hour drive from Perth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A diver has died after being attacked by a shark while spearfishing with his family near a remote…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,50,85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-465078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","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\/465078","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=465078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}