4th shark attack in 2 days shuts down beaches
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Swimmers in Sydney have been urged to stay out of the water after three people were seriously wounded during a spate of shark attacks in New South Wales.
A man who was attacked by a bull shark at Manly would have likely died without critical units of blood he received following a swift, 10-second handover between police and paramedics likened to “F1 pit stop” on a Sydney bridge.
We’ve turned to the experts at the International Shark Attack File to uncover the seven shark species most notorious for their aggressive behavior. These powerful predators have earned their reputations as some of the ocean’s most dangerous inhabitants.
Each year, unsuspecting divers, surfers and swimmers suffer shark bites – with some unfortunately not surviving to tell the tale. We’ve ranked the top 20 of the 500+ shark species, counting down to the ‘big three’, whose victims number in the hundreds.
Recent shark attacks may be linked less to shark behaviour – and more to the pollutants, pesticides and parasites humans send into the ocean.
Three attacks in two days are the latest in a fourfold increase in shark bites along the NSW coast in recent years.
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