{"id":124324,"date":"2025-09-09T04:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124324\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T04:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:06:16","slug":"man-dies-after-suspected-shark-attack-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124324\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after suspected shark attack in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

The state police said the emergency services received reports shortly after 10:00 local time on Saturday (00:00 GMT) that “a man had suffered critical injuries”.<\/p>\n

At a news briefing later on Saturday, the police described the victim as an experienced surfer who had been in the water with his friends.<\/p>\n

They said he had been surfing for only about 30 minutes when he was attacked some 100m (328ft) off the shore, losing “a number of limbs”.<\/p>\n

Rod McGibbon, a duty officer from Surf Life Saving, said the victim had been brought to the beach by other surfers. <\/p>\n

He said he expected the beaches to remain closed for between 24 and 72 hours.<\/p>\n

The victim’s name has not been publicly released.<\/p>\n

Local police officers and experts were working together to “determine the species of shark involved”, the police added.<\/p>\n

The last deadly shark attack in the Sydney area was in 2022, when Simon Nellist – a British diving instructor – was mauled by a great white shark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, there had not been a fatal attack since 1963.<\/p>\n

Australia typically records about 20 shark attacks each year, with most in New South Wales and Western Australia.<\/p>\n

Historically, dying from a shark bite is uncommon. In over a century of records, Australia’s shark attack mortality rate is 0.9 – less than one person per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state police said the emergency services received reports shortly after 10:00 local time on Saturday (00:00 GMT)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-124324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}