A man believed to be in his 20s is in a critical condition after being bitten by a shark in the third attack at Sydney beaches in two days. He was taken to Royal North Shore hospital on Monday evening after New South Wales Ambulance officers treated the man at Manly beach in Sydney's north following the attack. NSW police said the man was pulled from the water by members of the public who commenced first aid before emergency services arrived.
A boy has been attacked by a shark in Sydney's east and is in a critical condition after suffering serious injuries to both legs. The boy, believed to be aged about 12, was pulled from the water at Shark beach at Neilsen Park, in the eastern suburb of Vaucluse, on Sunday afternoon. He was treated at the scene by first responders with tourniquets, New South Wales police said. Emergency services were first called to the harbourside beach at about 4.20pm, police said.
They turned to wearable shark deterrents, including magnetic ankle bands designed to overwhelm a shark's electroreceptors - the sensitive "sixth sense" pores the predators use to detect the faint electrical heartbeats of nearby prey. Other products on the market rely on electrical currents, while some use scent. Erica Fox, a seasoned triathlete and Kelp Krawlers member, was wearing one such device Dec. 21, 2025, when she was found dead. Her body was discovered along the Davenport shoreline in Santa Cruz County, about 25 miles from where she was last seen. Fox's death - now under investigation and suspected to have involved a shark - has sparked scrutiny among swim club members about whether the devices meaningfully reduce risk. A Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office spokesperson said the agency could not confirm whether an autopsy had been performed or whether Fox had suffered a shark bite. Witnesses reported seeing a shark breach just offshore at Lovers Point that morning, where Fox was leading a group of about a dozen swimmers. Many of them had purchased Sharkbanz-branded products after a 2022 attack injured fellow Kelp Krawlers member Steve Bruemmer, who survived but suffered serious injuries.
After a shark attack injured one of their own nearly three years ago, members of the Kelp Krawlers who swim weekly around Lovers Point in Monterey County began searching for something that might make the open ocean feel safer. They turned to wearable shark deterrents, including magnetic ankle bands designed to overwhelm a shark's electroreceptors the sensitive sixth sense pores the predators use to detect the faint electrical heartbeats of nearby prey.
California firefighters have found the body of a California triathlete on a beach north-west of Santa Cruz, almost a week after she went missing amid speculation that she was killed by a shark. The remains of Erica Fox were found on Saturday, her father and husband confirmed to local news outlets. Fox, 55, was part of a group of more than a dozen swimmers who left from Lovers Point near Monterey, California, on 21 December, but she never returned to shore.
A surfer avoided injury after being attacked by a shark Monday morning at Marin County's Dillon Beach, officials verified Tuesday. The attack occurred around 9 or 10 a.m. near the mouth of Tomales Bay, said Graham Groneman, a battalion chief with the Marin County Fire Department. The area is a known habitat for sharks where sightings aren't abnormal. "It's where shark experts do research on Great White sharks," he said.
A surfer was hospitalized with minor injuries Friday morning after he was bitten on the hand by a shark at North Salmon Creek Beach in Bodega Bay. According to Karen Hancock, a Sonoma County Fire District spokesperson, responding emergency personnel arrived on scene to find that the surfer had made it to shore on his own and had managed to bandage his own hand. The surfer initially declined medical treatment, Hancock added.
A 3-to-4-foot-long shark bit a man attempting to swim the 20-plus miles from Santa Catalina Island to San Pedro early Tuesday in a "rare attack," according to authorities. The finned culprit "nipped" at the unidentified 54-year-old swimmer, causing non-life-threatening injuries to the man's leg and foot, according to Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Adam VanGerpen. "He was awake and talking and sitting up," VanGerpen said of the swimmer. "He suffered only mild distress."
The bite occurred around 4:15 p.m. in the water at the Central Mall beachfront of Jones Beach State Park when an unidentified woman was bitten on her left foot and leg by "unknown marine wildlife." Jones Beach State Lifeguards and Emergency Medical staff transported her to Nassau County University Medical Center Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
I was sitting on the board, actually, and I felt something under my foot, Heller said in a video interview on the scene. It kicked me off the board. I looked back and just saw this big-mouth just grabbing onto my board.
