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The woman bitten by a shark while swimming alone at Rockaway Beach is believed to have lost “approximately 20 pounds of flesh” in the rare attack — believed to be the waterfront’s first since 1953, sources told The Post on Tuesday. The victim, a 65-year-old Queens woman, was attacked off the shore near Beach 59th Street shortly before 6 p.m. Monday — losing a large chunk of her left leg, above the knee, to the shark, according to sources and a photo of her injury. Lifeguards spotted her screaming for help in the water — and pulled her to shore,...

A swimmer was killed by a shark in a vicious attack filmed by horrified beachgoers Wednesday near Sydney, video shows. Police said they recovered human remains in the water after emergency crews responded to reports of a great white shark attack at Buchan Point in Malabar about 4:30 p.m. local time. In the terrifying scene captured by a beachgoer, the shark could be seen thrashing around as the waves turned bright red from the victim’s blood. “Someone just got eaten by a shark!” a man yelled in the video, adding that the shark was a “big great white.” “That’s insane.”...

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A shark attacked a seal close to the shore of Race Point Beach in Provincetown today. Check out this video Corey Nunes took! (2020)

CHIMNEY CORNER, N.S. -- There is shock and horror in a picturesque part of Western Cape Breton, after a 21-year-old woman was airlifted to hospital following an apparent shark attack on Friday. While not entirely unheard of, this kind of thing is remarkably rare around here. It was just off Margaree Island, along the west coast of Cape Breton, where a dream summer day on the water turned into a nightmare for a 21-year-old woman. Apparent shark attack off west coast of Cape Breton leaves woman with serious injuries "This is terrifying. This is traumatic,” says Fred Whoriskey, excecutive director...

Emergency crews responded to a report of a shark bite in Emerald Bay around 7 a.m., according to Los Angeles County Fire Department Supervisor Melanie Flores. The child’s condition was not immediately known. Emerald Bay is located off the northern side of Catalina Island, just northwest of Two Harbors.

UPDATE: Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office has confirmed that the victim's name was Ben Kelly. California State Parks tells Action News Kelly was surfing with others when attacked by an unknown shark species. UPDATE: A surfer was killed in a shark attack off a Northern California beach, state park officials said Saturday. California State Parks confirmed with Action News that the victim was a 26-year-old male from Santa Cruz County. The type of shark species that attacked the victim is unknown. Following State Parks protocol, the water one mile south and north of the incident location will be closed for...

Police say the victim was attacked by sharks while snorkeling with her family near the island. Family members apparently saw the sharks and yelled, trying to warn her, but she didn’t hear them in time. Police say there were three sharks involved; they bit her in the arms, legs and buttocks and severed her right arm. Lindsey was taken to hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. She is expected to undergo an autopsy in Nassau. Lindsey was a communication studies major at Loyola Marymount University. Friends described her as an animal lover and a climate change advocate. “My heart...

A heroic dad repeatedly punched a shark that almost killed his daughter in a terrifying attack in North Carolina, according to his family. Paige Winter, 17, lost a leg and some fingers after getting mauled in the water at Fort Macon beach on Sunday. She was airlifted 80 miles to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville where a rep told NewsChannel 12 that her “heroic father … saved her life.” “Thank God our son was with her,” Paige’s grandmother Janet Winter said of Charlie Winter, a former US Marine who is also a local firefighter. “He said he punched the shark...

WELLFLEET -- An unidentified man died Saturday after being bitten by a shark some 300 yards south of Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, town police confirmed. His name was being withheld until notification of next of kin; the Boston Globe identified him as a 26-year-old from Revere, and attributed that information to state police. The attack happened at about 12:30 p.m. Newcomb Hollow is a town-managed beach on property owned by Cape Cod National Seashore. “Around noontime [Saturday] a male swimmer at Newcomb Hollow Beach was bitten by what is believed to be a shark. The male victim [in his]...

A New York financier has been killed in a shark attack while scuba diving off the coast of Costa Rica, the country's Environment Ministry announced. Rohina Bhandari, 49, a senior director at WL Ross & Co. LL, was identified by friends as the American tourist who was fatally attacked last Thursday. She was dragged from the Pacific Ocean after sustaining severe bites to her legs but could not be saved. Her 26-year-old diving instructor was also badly injured.

She had wounds in a half circle across her torso, teeth marks from her upper right shoulder in the back to her pelvis in front and to the other side of her buttocks in the back. Several ribs were fractured. A lung was punctured. She lost no less than a liter of blood. Doctors looked for teeth that might’ve still been in her body. Maria Korcsmaros, a 52-year-old triathlete and mother of three, survived a shark attack Sunday in Corona del Mar. She lived only because of her own quick thinking, strong work from a pair of Newport Beach lifeguards...

A 68-year-old man was pulled under the water by a shark Wednesday in the Outer Banks — this time on Ocracoke Island. The man was swimming outside the first breaker about 25 feet offshore, directly in front of the lifeguard stand, when he encountered a gray shark about 7 feet long, Hyde County officials said. A lifeguard saw the shark pull the man under the water. He suffered several bites to his rib cage, hip, lower leg and both hands. A witness told CNN he saw a “trail of blood from water to the sand.” The victim was able to...

Two teenagers lost limbs in separate shark attacks at the same North Carolina beach on Sunday. Oak Island Mayor Betty Wallace told CNN that a teenage girl lost her left arm and left leg in an attack around 4:15 p.m. EDT. Less than 90 minutes later, as responders were still tending to her, a teenage boy was then attacked. "His arm was clean off," said witness Jason Hunter, who spoke with CNN affiliate WWAY.

A 17-year-old shark attack victim fatally mauled in waters off WA's south coast has been identified as local boy Jay Muscat. Jay was spearfishing with a teenage friend at Cheynes Beach, a small settlement of holiday homes and a caravan park about 65km east of Albany, when he was bitten on the leg around noon yesterday. Jay and his friends were keen free divers and most of their social media posts were of fishing, PerthNow reports. He described himself on his Instagram page as "just a young salty dog ... spearfishing and fishing are my thing". The spearfishers were about...

MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. - A 38-year-old woman on a family trip to the beach was attacked by a shark Thursday morning off Brevard County. ... It's not known what type of shark attacked the woman. A 2,300-pound great white shark tracked by research group Ocearch pinged off the Brevard Coast earlier in the week, but the group's website showed the great white near South Florida

A German woman who lost her arm in a shark attack died Wednesday, one week after she was bitten while snorkeling off Maui. ... A woman was killed last month after being attacked while swimming in Brazil during her vacation. Worldwide, there were seven deaths resulting from unprovoked shark attacks in 2012, including one in California

Sharks are the predators of the sea and there is nothing they like more than to snack on a tasty morsel like a seal. However, they can mistake a diver in wetsuit for a seal, and as a consequence the attack humans. Now an Australian company has invented wetsuits that confuse a shark’s vision by making the wearer seem invisible. One of the designs repels the shark by making the wearer unpalatable, and the other replicates the natural patterns of the ocean. …

A MONSTER white pointer snatched a young surfer before trying to knock a jet-ski rider into the water in the fifth fatal shark attack in 10 months along a 380km stretch of the WA coast. The 4m killer dubbed Brutus by surfers near Wedge Island, 180km north of Perth mauled a 24-year-old man as he surfed with a mate at 9am yesterday. Fisheries Minister Norman Moore ordered a shark hunt to capture and kill the beast, saying of the unprecedented spate of attacks: "We seriously have got a problem." The jet-ski rider who tried to retrieve the man said it...

A shark took a 19-inch bite out of Eric Tarantino s surfboard early Saturday. California State Park Lifeguard Kevin Brady shows the surfboard following the attack. (DAVID ROYAL/The Herald) A Monterey man suffered multiple injuries Saturday morning when he was attacked by a shark while surfing at Marina State Beach. Eric Tarantino, 27, was bitten along the right side of his body by a shark that took a 19-inch chunk from his red surfboard. He had wounds on his neck, shoulder, wrist and forearm, witnesses said. Tarantino was flown to Regional Medical Center of San Jose, authorities said. His...