Very sad news coming in from NSW, a 60 year old man has died after being bitten the leg by a shark. He was surfing off Kingscliff in northern NSW.
He was surfing at 10.41am Sunday morning when a 3m shark bit his leg. Surfers came to his aid and got him to the shore where he has helped by SLSC members but unfortunately he died at the scene.
“[D]espite the best efforts of nearby surfers and bystanders who fought off the shark and got the man to the shore and rendered first aid, the man died on the beach,” Surf Life Saving NSW said.
“NSW shark biologists assessed aerial photographs taken of the shark and bite marks on the victim and concluded that the shark responsible for the attack was a large, three-metre white shark,”
“The number of deaths from sharks in Australia averages about one per year’ The Sydney Herald reports “In NSW, there had been 66 fatalities from 204 shark bites over the past 150 years prior to Sunday’s death.”
Thoughts are with the mans family and surfing community
