A 20-year-old man surfing near picturesque Gnarrabup beach south of Perth was attacked and injured by a great white shark on Monday, with authorities in Australia saying the victim is in stable condition.
The man was bitten while enjoying an early morning surf session near a popular surfing spot on the west coast.
A spokesman for the Western Australia Country Health Service said AFP The condition of the youth was stable on Monday evening.
Local officials closed the beach “to ensure the safety of the community”, while state officials asked the public to report shark sightings.
According to west australian According to the newspaper, a nurse helped him after he managed to reach a nearby cafe.
Other surfers took him to a local hospital and he was later transferred to the larger Bunbury Regional Hospital, with photographs on the newspaper’s website showing him arriving on a stretcher, sitting up straight and awake.
More than 100 of the world’s more than 370 shark species live in Western Australian waters – from the 30cm pygmy shark to the world’s largest fish, the gentle whale shark, which can grow up to 12m long.
Earlier last month, a Russian citizen was killed in a tiger shark attack at a Red Sea resort near the city of Hurghada.
According to Egypt’s environment ministry, it had captured the shark and was examining it in a laboratory to determine the cause of the rare attack.
According to the Taronga Conservation Society’s Australian Shark Incident Database, 16 fatal shark attacks have been recorded in Western Australian waters since 2010, the most recent in February this year, when a teenage girl died.
