Man surfs to safety after shark attacks
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A MAN mauled by a shark off New South Wales yesterday managed to get back on his surf ski and get help for a serious leg injury, police said.
David Quinlivan, 65, was paddling his surf ski near Forster, a town about 300 kilometers north of Sydney, when he was attacked, police said. He fell into the water but got back on the ski and managed to get close to shore, where bystanders helped him from the water.
One of them, Warren Thompson, said: “He had lost his paddle but was able to climb back onto the ski and caught a wave to the shore.
“It looked to us like he was having a heart attack. When we reached him, he told us to stay out of the water.”
Quinlivan has had emergency surgery for his leg injury.
Two weeks ago, a 38-year-old surfer suffered life-threatening injuries when he was attacked by a shark at Port Macquarie, 100 kilometers north of Forster.
Three weeks earlier, a 52-year-old surfer was seriously injured as he repeatedly punched a shark that mauled him off Evans Head, in the 11th attack in five months along a 20-kilometer stretch of the northern New South Wales coast.
On February 9, a 41-year-old Japanese tourist was killed around the tourist town of Ballina, also in northern New South Wales.
The only fatal attack in Australia since then was in July, when a 46-year-old diver was killed off Tasmania.
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