National Parks Australia
Crowdy Bay Beach, Australia
A woman and a man were swimming on a remote beach in New South Wales early in the morning when the attack took place.
An unusual attack from a bull shark killed a woman and injured a manwho were swimming on a remote beach in New South Wales, in Australia.
The attack took place early this Thursday morning, at Crowdy Bay beach – which, despite the name, is not full of people, and is far from any rescue service.
The woman died immediately at the scene of the attack. The man was seriously injured in a perna but he survived, and is stable; and may have been saved by “heroic” efforts from another person who was passing by the beach.
“They knew each other, they were going swimming when the shark attacked them,” New South Wales police inspector Timothy Bayly told journalists, quoted in .
The person who may have saved the man’s life improvised a tourniquet on the leg of the person attacked: “The courage of some bystanders is incredible in this situation – exposing themselves in this way is an act of a hero”, added the inspector.
The bull shark is one of the deadliest species of deep-sea predatory fish; It is the only cartilaginous fish capable of moving between fresh and salt water, and is therefore able to swim long distances.
They can reach up to 2.3 meters in length and are among the shark species most likely to bite swimmers in the Australian ocean, along with the great white and tiger sharks.
But An attack of this kind is unusual: In almost 250 years of recorded shark incidents in Australia, only 212 have involved bull sharks. In other words, it is less than one per year, on average.
