Three Shark Attacks In Australia In Less Than 3 Weeks

Three Shark Attacks In Australia In Less Than 3 Weeks, is something that Australia usually sees in a full calender year.

The last shark attack was against a snorkeling guide leading a group of snorkelers through a lagoon at Western Australia’s Coral Bay on Thursday, January 19th, 2012, by a tiger shark.

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David Pickering, age 26, was attacked when the shark swam up to him and sunk its teeth into his arm.

Pickering states, “I turned around and boom, there he was (The force) was enough to actually bring me forward and under him because I scraped my knee on his belly.”

Pickering then stated that “I punched the shark with my other arm and it backed off. Then I yelled at the other snorkelers–a couple and their two children–to get out of the water before swimming the 300 feet (100 meters) back to shore.”

“I’m pretty stoked that it happened to me and not one of those kids.”

The brave snorkeling guide was taken to a hospital in Perth with severe lacerations to his arm. His injuries were not life-threatening and he is in stable condition

On January 18th, a surfer was bitten by a shark at a beach off Australia’s east coast, while another surfer was attacked at a beach north of Sydney on January 3rd, 2012.

Despite the shark attack, Pickering says that the shark attack wouldn’t keep him away from the ocean.

“I’ll definitely be back in the water—as soon as this bad boy is healed up,” he stated, holding his arm up with a laugh.

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