{"id":64922,"date":"2025-10-08T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/64922\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:33:09","slug":"surfer-in-australia-drives-himself-to-hospital-after-being-bitten-twice-by-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/64922\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfer in Australia drives himself to hospital after being bitten twice by shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">The predator was chasing a seal around the bay when the seal used the surfer as a decoy, and the shark bit the victim twice, it said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">The surfer, in his 50s, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, 9News reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">A 29-year-old surfer survived an attack at the same beach in 2020, suffering leg injuries from a great white shark. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">Bronze whaler sharks can get as large as 3m long, but usually average 1.5-2.5m in length according to NIWA. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">They are one of the most abundant large shark species in New Zealand coastal waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The predator was chasing a seal around the bay when the seal used the surfer as a decoy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[74,89,85,682,46919,3595,52606,20106,8241,2241,78,671,111,139,69,147,7971,1240,10137,61,17251,406],"class_list":["post-64922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-after","tag-attack","tag-australia","tag-being","tag-bitten","tag-by","tag-drives","tag-drove","tag-himself","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-incident","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-shark","tag-south","tag-surfer","tag-to","tag-twice","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64922","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=64922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}