Sydney, Jan 21, (dpa/GNA) – A man was bitten by a shark in the Mid North Coast of New South Wales on Tuesday morning, NSW Surf Life Saving (SLS) said, the fourth such attack in the area over 48 hours.
“A male surfer … had an interaction with a bull shark and has been knocked off his board, his board has been bitten, there were multiple sharks in the water according to reports from other surfers in the water,” NSW SLS boss Steve Pierce told 2GB radio.
The attack took place at Point Plomer in Limeburners Creek National Park, about 450 kilometres north of Sydney.
Pierce said the injured man was taken to hospital “with minor injuries just to his leg, I believe it’s just grazes or minor cuts, so he’s extremely fortunate.”
Point Plomer was “known for a bit of shark activity,” Pierce added.
This is the fourth shark attack on the NSW coast in 48 hours.
A man suffered serious leg injuries after being bitten by a shark on Monday evening at North Steyne Beach in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Earlier on Monday, a boy had his board bitten by a shark at nearby Dee Why, while on Sunday a 13-year-old boy was attacked while swimming near Shark Beach in Sydney’s east and was in a serious condition.
“I’ve never seen this,” Pierce told 2GB, adding that the incidents “really rattled” the local community in the Northern Beaches.
“The water quality is so torbid with the amount of runoff. We’ve had an extraordinary amount of rain in this neck of the woods and every outlet is pushing dirty water straight out through the creeks into the water and this does really heighten risk of shark interactions because of the water,” Pierce said.
According to official data from 2025, there has been an average of about 20 shark incidents with injuries per year in Australia over the past 10 years, with an average of 2.8 fatalities annually.
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