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Jun 30^th, 2025 at 7:53am

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-29/teenage-boy-bitten-by-shark-at-cabarita-beach-nsw/105474748

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A teenage boy has suffered serious injuries in a shark attack on the NSW Far North Coast on Sunday afternoon.

Emergency services were called to Norris Headland at Cabarita Beach, located between Byron Bay and the Tweed, shortly before 4pm.

The 16-year-old was bitten on his right arm and right leg, after being attacked while swimming, NSW Surf Lifesaving CEO Stephen Pearce told the ABC.

"At this stage I'm unsure of the severity of injuries, but I'm told there were traumatic injuries to the right arm and right leg," he said.

NSW Ambulance said he was being flown to a Gold Coast hospital in a serious but stable condition.

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 56770 Gender:	Re: shark attack Reply #1 - Jun 30^th, 2025 at 5:29pm Sharks love overcast sky and less clear water like storm periods. They come in closer and are more game.
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Daves2017 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3287 Gender:	Re: shark attack Reply #2 - Jul 16^th, 2025 at 1:22am It’s random. I believe given the amount of shark attacks in the same area over a few years it’s likely the same shark. Once they get the taste we are easy hunting.
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Reply #3 - Jul 16^th, 2025 at 8:42am

To fight the Lionfish plague in the Caribbean, they began feeding sharks the lionfish off the tips of their spears.The sharks would eat them, via head first and this seemed like a successful act of making lionfish a target for sharks.
Trouble was, that the sharks associated the lionfish with humans and within a year, sharks were aggressively targeting divers for food, then biting the divers themselves.

When I was hanging out in Stewart Island, NZ. The local knowledge of diving with Great Whites in the strait, was that they were shy and harmless, in subordination to the local Orca. Divers had no trouble.
Then some group from the Bluff began 'research'. That research was for Cage Diving Tourism. They were chuming and feeding the Great Whites, to bring them to the cages. In 8 years, locals on both sides of the strait were angry as hell, as the Great Whites associated food & humans together as they had become aggressive, banging boats and tinnies, like seagulls for a chip. It was no longer deemed safe to open dive, as the Great Whites would also bump divers from out of nowhere.

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 53061 At my desk.	Re: shark attack Reply #4 - Jul 16^th, 2025 at 10:14am Quote: within a year, sharks were aggressively targeting divers for food, then biting the divers themselves Duh
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 56770 Gender:	Re: shark attack Reply #5 - Jul 16^th, 2025 at 1:41pm Duh dum. Duh ...dum. Duh dum... duh dum... duh duh duh dum dum dum.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 53061 At my desk.	Re: shark attack Reply #6 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 12:07pm Some cool footage:
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tallowood Gold Member Offline Израиль Навсегда Posts: 7946 Gender:	Re: shark attack Reply #7 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 12:25pm During drought spells bullsharks come 20km up the river, one stolen bream off the hook right next to my kayak about 7 years ago.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 152674 Gender:	Re: shark attack Reply #8 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 12:28pm I was fascinated by sharks and shark attacks when I was a kid (thanks to Steven Spielberg). I had a book called Sharks and Shipwrecks which I used to read every day. Loved that book.
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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21822 Gordon Gender:	Re: shark attack Reply #9 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 3:10pm What I find amazing is that from all the time I've spent in the ocean, I've never seen a shark from a species considered dangerous.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 53061 At my desk.	Re: shark attack Reply #10 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 3:16pm It really depends on where you go. And the timing. There seem to be more of them over the last decade. And also whether you can see what is there. Where you surfing or diving?
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 152674 Gender:	Re: shark attack Reply #11 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 4:36pm I've swum with bull sharks. I didn't know they were sharks at first though. It was in Port Hedland, WA. When I finally figured out what the things in the water were (bumping in to me), I got out REAL fast!
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Reply #12 - Jan 18^th, 2026 at 6:57pm

freediver wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 3:16pm:

It really depends on where you go. And the timing. There seem to be more of them over the last decade.

And also whether you can see what is there. Where you surfing or diving?

Shark Beach at Nielson Park is a harbour beach that works when there is large swell, and it was working yesterday and today.

Here's a still of vid my wife took yesterday, I'm on the left hand side at the back.

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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21822 Gordon Gender:	Re: shark attack Reply #13 - Jan 18^th, 2026 at 6:59pm I was out before the heavy rain hit, so the water wasn't really murky. Today it would have been like brown soup, I'd never go out in that. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/18/boy-fighting-for-life-aft...
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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21822 Gordon Gender:	Re: shark attack Reply #14 - Jan 19^th, 2026 at 9:31am The attack happened at Jump Rock, just up from the beach, notice how it's called shark point, right near there is where fisheries catch and tag bull sharks. I'd never swim their after heavy rain for shark related reasons and because it's dirty. In good conditions it's crystal clear!
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 56770 Gender:	Re: shark attack Reply #15 - Mar 5^th, 2026 at 4:22pm Latest attack. Elderly man off Lady Elliot Island with a bite to leg and arm.
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Re: shark attack
Reply #16 - Mar 5^th, 2026 at 8:30pm

Shark attack off Lady Elliot Island leaves man wounded

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-05/man-injured-in-shark-attack-snorkelling-lady-elliot-island/106419650

A man in his 50s has been bitten by a shark off Lady Elliot Island, 85 kilometres north-east of Bundaberg, on the Southern Great Barrier Reef.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesperson said the man had a significant wound to his arm and minor wounds to his abdomen and hand.

Lady Elliot Island custodian Peter Gash said the man was with two other men.

Mr Gash said they were not guests on the island and had been snorkelling on the western side about 8am.

"The men swam ashore and alerted Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort staff," he said.

"Lady Elliot Island staff provided immediate assistance, stabilised the man and helped coordinate an emergency response."
The man was taken to Bundaberg Hospital by LifeFlight in a stable condition.

Mr Gash said the type of shark was not known and, as a precaution, the western snorkelling zones had been closed until further notice.

"Resort staff and marine shark experts are monitoring the closed snorkel zone and all in-house resort guests have been informed," he said.

Mr Gash said in his 20 years as a custodian of the island, he could not recall another shark bite.

"We've advised all guests, put up signs and reminded people not to swim at dawn and dusk and don't swim in murky water," he said.

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