MELBOURNE, Australia — A spearfisher was mauled on the Nice Barrier Reef on Sunday in Australia’s second deadly shark assault in simply over every week, police stated.
The 39-year-old man was with three pals diving from a ship at Kennedy Shoal off the Queensland state coast south of Cairns when he was attacked, Police Inspector Elaine Burns stated.
“The person had been spearfishing when he was attacked and died from a essential head harm,” Burns instructed reporters.
The sufferer, a Cairns resident, was introduced by boat round midday to the vacationer city of Hull Heads the place paramedics have been ready. He had “sustained accidents not suitable with life,” an ambulance service assertion stated.
Kennedy Shoal is a shallow coral reef in style with leisure fishers. Divers are additionally drawn to the Woman Bowen, a nineteenth century shipwreck.
Fishers reported bull sharks had been seen within the space earlier than the assault.
A shark fatally mauled spearfisher Steve Mattabonni on Might 16 at a coral reef off Rottnest Island close to the southwest coast of Western Australia state.
The 38-year-old Perth resident was taken by boat to the vacation island the place paramedics have been unable to resuscitate him.
A five-meter (16-foot) white shark was suspected.
Australia has averaged greater than three deadly shark assaults a yr in latest many years. The most recent demise is Australia’s third shark fatality for 2026.
Nico Antic, 12, died in a hospital days after he was attacked by a suspected bull shark off a Sydney seaside on Jan. 18.
