A swimmer suffered wounds to his arms and legs yesterday after he was mauled in a suspected shark attack off Queensland state on Australia’s east coast, officials said.
The latest reported attack came during the busy summer season and as authorities in neighboring New South Wales implement a range of shark-prevention measures to reduce encounters after a spate of maulings in the state last year.
The 30-year-old man was swimming off Rosslyn Bay about 670km north of Brisbane just before 12pm when he was believed to have been bitten by a shark, the state’s ambulance service said.
“[He has] lacerations to the arms and legs,” an ambulance spokesman said. “He is still being assessed. He’s just arrived to the shore now and will be transferred to Rockhampton Hospital shortly.”
The swimmer was in a stable condition and would be transferred to another hospital in Brisbane later today, a Rockhampton Hospital spokesman said.
The man was believed to have been snorkeling off Miall Island near Rosslyn Bay, a local coast guard officer told Brisbane’s Courier Mail newspaper.
“From what I understand he was snorkeling a bit off the beach and said he saw a lot of fish and then the shark came out of nowhere,” Yeppoon Coast Guard flotilla commander Arthur Hunt said. “It’s the first shark attack we’ve had up here in a while — I’ve been [with the coast guard] for seven years and this is my first.”
There were 14 attacks in New South Wales last year — including the fatal mauling of a Japanese surfer — compared with three in 2014, according to data compiled by Sydney’s Taronga Zoo.
In Queensland, there were four attacks last year, compared with one in 2014, taking last year’s national toll to 22, it said.
Experts said attacks are increasing as water sports become more popular and bait fish move closer to shore, but fatalities remain rare.
In August, a 52-year-old surfer was seriously injured as he repeatedly punched a shark that mauled him at Evans Head, 550km north of Sydney.
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