A man recovers at the Brisbane Hospital after being bitten by a shark and was transferred by an air to treat the island of Mauriton Bay.
The man, who is said to be 29 years old, was in the water off the Gulf side on the island of Mauriton near the walking path in the widowment path shortly after 3 pm on Saturday.
The paramedics worked at the scene due to abdominal and leg injuries before a rescue helicopter went to Princess Alexandra Hospital in a stable condition, where he remained on Sunday morning.
This is the second shark attack in the Gulf in less than a month-after the 17-year-old Charles Zamouda died after being bitten by a shark off the island of Prix north of Brisbane in early February-and the fourth shark attack in Queensland Waters in recent months.
On December 28 last year, 40 -year -old Locke Wallo Warfs was killed by a shark near Hombe island abroad from Central Queensland, weeks after a man was transferred to the hospital after a shark attack on the nearby Cortis Island. Both of these men were spear when they were bitten.
The Wrecks walking path connects Tangalooma resort near a group of ships in the 1960s to the 1980s, which is a popular place for diving for the visitors of the sandy island.
Australia is witnessing a long -term increase in the number of sharks, but experts say this is largely due to the fact that the growing population in the country means that more people are in water.
Dr. Daril McVy of the University of the Guardian University told Australia that the risk of shark bite “is still very low, and that the deadly bites are less.”
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He said that there is an average of 2.7 deaths of sharks in Australia between 2014 and 2023, compared to 1.8 deaths in the previous decade.
Javin Naylor, director of the shark research program at the Florida Museum of Natural History, said that the ability of the beach saving services in Australia to respond to Pets was “unparalleled” that may maintain the number of deaths.
Australia is a global contact point for the attack, which is largely due to the country’s rapprochement with the ocean.
In 2023, there were 10 fatal sharks in the world, with four of those who spoke in Australia – three of them off the coast of southern Australia.