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Man bitten by shark off Queensland’s Moreton Island in second assault in lower than a month

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A person is recovering in a Brisbane hospital after being bitten by a shark and airlifted for remedy from a Moreton Bay island.

The person, who’s reported to be 29, was mauled within the waters off the bay facet of Moreton Island close to the Wrecks Strolling Monitor shortly after 3pm on Saturday.

Paramedics handled him on the scene for belly and leg accidents earlier than a rescue helicopter flew him to the Princess Alexandra hospital in a steady situation, the place he remained on Sunday morning.

It’s the second shark assault within the bay in lower than a month – after 17-year-old Charlize Zmuda died after being bitten by a shark off Bribie Island simply north of Brisbane in early February – and the fourth shark assault in Queensland waters in latest months.

On 28 December final yr, 40-year-old Luke Walford, 40, was killed by a shark close to Humpy Island offshore from central Queensland, weeks after a person was hospitalised after a shark assault on close by Curtis Island. Each of these males had been spear fishing once they had been bitten.

The Wrecks Strolling Monitor connects the Tangalooma resort close to a cluster of ships scuttled within the Nineteen Sixties by means of to the ’80s that are a well-liked snorkelling spot for guests to the sand island.

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Australia is seeing a long-term improve within the variety of shark bites, however specialists say that is largely on account of the truth that the nation’s rising inhabitants means extra persons are within the water.

Bond College’s Dr Daryl McPhee informed Guardian Australia that the danger of a shark chunk “remains extremely low, and fatal bites are even lower”.

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He mentioned there have been a median of two.7 deaths from shark bites in Australia between 2014 and 2023, in contrast with 1.8 deaths within the earlier decade.

Gavin Naylor, the director of the Florida Museum of Pure Historical past’s shark analysis program, mentioned that the flexibility of Australia’s seaside rescue companies to answer bites was “second to none” which in all probability retains the variety of fatalities down.

Australia is a worldwide shark assault hotspot, largely as a result of nation’s affinity for the ocean.

In 2023, there have been 10 deadly shark bites globally, with 4 of these occurring in Australia – three of them off the coast of South Australia.

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